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divineness

/dih-vahyn/US // dɪˈvaɪn //UK // (dɪˈvaɪn) //

神圣性,神性,神圣,神圣的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    di·vin·er, di·vin·est.

    • : of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
    • : addressed, appropriated, or devoted to God or a god; religious; sacred: divine worship.
    • : proceeding from God or a god: divine laws;divine guidance.
    • : godlike; characteristic of or befitting a deity:divine magnanimity.
    • : heavenly; celestial: the divine kingdom.
    • : extremely good; unusually lovely: He has the most divine tenor voice.
    • : being a god; being God: Zeus, Hera, and other divine beings in Greek mythology.
    • : of superhuman or surpassing excellence: Beauty is divine.
    • : Obsolete. of or relating to divinity or theology.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a theologian; scholar in religion.
    • : a priest or member of the clergy.
    • : the Divine, God.the spiritual aspect of humans; the group of attributes and qualities of humankind regarded as godly or godlike.
v.有主动词 verb
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    di·vined, di·vin·ing.

    • : to discover or declare by divination; prophesy.
    • : to discover by means of a divining rod.
    • : to perceive by intuition or insight; conjecture: She divined personal details about her customers based on their clothing and accents.It was not difficult to divine his true intent.
    • : Archaic. to portend.
v.无主动词 verb
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    di·vined, di·vin·ing.

    • : to use or practice divination; prophesy.
    • : to have perception by intuition or insight; conjecture.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • From this food, one divines the transverse currents of slavery, servitude, and exploitation.

  • Any help you encounter is dumb luck or divine intervention, and you shouldn’t bet the farm on receiving either of those.

  • It has served as a kind of mandala — a configuration of symbols intended to direct the viewer’s focus toward something divine or transcendent.

  • Mendel’s genius lay in divining the simple foundational rules that enable us to begin thinking intelligently about heredity.

  • Izanagi and Izanami went on to create more landmasses and give birth to other divine entities, thereby giving form to the principal eight islands of Japan and over 800 kami.

  • After the screening, Jolie, who says she renewed her faith in “the divine” during filming, met briefly with the pope.

  • Beyoncé has, for close to a decade now, been a deity in entertainment: untouchable, successful, divine.

  • When a popular Sunni televangelist does it, to forgive is divine.

  • In the 1980s, your community allowed hundreds of thousands of us to die because you believed AIDS was divine punishment.

  • Allah seems unlikely to enter into a “personal” relationship with Muslims, who readily submit to the divine will.

  • The proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.

  • How little did he divine that the letter of the doctor was called forth by a communication from the countess-dowager.

  • By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters.

  • Divine Providence is about to place independence within our reach, in a manner most acceptable to a free and independent people.

  • The vision itself is an outcome of that divine discontent which raises man above his environment.