All 3 Uses of
divine
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Examples, gross as earth, exhort me: Witness this army, of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince; Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.†
Scene 4.4
- β Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person: There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.†
Scene 4.5 *
- Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it,βlet us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well, When our deep plots do fail; and that should teach us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God