Both Uses of
divine
in
King Lear
- …we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!†
Scene 1.2
- —'Ay' and 'no', too, was no good divinity.†
Scene 4.6 *
Definition:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God