All 21 Uses of
divine
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- ...whatever he had heard or divined in childhood of the strange and terrible.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *divined = learned through intuition or reflection
- His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3)
- Why was the sacrament of the eucharist instituted under the two species of bread and wine if Jesus Christ be present body and blood, soul and divinity, in the bread alone and in the wine alone?†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Every sin would then come forth from its lurking place, the most rebellious against the divine will and the most degrading to our poor corrupt nature, the tiniest imperfection and the most heinous atrocity.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- chosen by divine design
Chpt 3 (definition 2) *divine = having come from God
- It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of Divine vengeance.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Saint Thomas, the greatest doctor of the church, the angelic doctor, as he is called, says that the worst damnation consists in this, that the understanding of man is totally deprived of divine light and his affection obstinately turned away from the goodness of God.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- God loves with a divine love every human soul, and every human soul lives in that love.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Divine justice insists that the understanding of those miserable wretches be fixed continually on the sins of which they were guilty, and moreover, as saint Augustine points out, God will impart to them His own knowledge of sin, so that sin will appear to them in all its hideous malice as it appears to the eyes of God Himself.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- Boundless extension of torment, incredible intensity of suffering, unceasing variety of torture—this is what the divine majesty, so outraged by sinners, demands; this is what the holiness of heaven, slighted and set aside for the lustful and low pleasures of the corrupt flesh, requires; this is what the blood of the innocent Lamb of God, shed for the redemption of sinners, trampled upon by the vilest of the vile, insists upon.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- No, no. It is impossible for any human being to do that which offends so deeply the divine majesty, that which is punished by an eternity of agony, that which crucifies again the Son of God and makes a mockery of Him.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- He believed this all the more, and with trepidation, because of the divine gloom and silence wherein dwelt the unseen Paraclete, Whose symbols were a dove and a mighty wind, to sin against Whom was a sin beyond forgiveness, the eternal mysterious secret Being to Whom, as God, the priests offered up mass once a year, robed in the scarlet of the tongues of fire.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- The imagery through which the nature and kinship of the Three Persons of the Trinity were darkly shadowed forth in the books of devotion which he read—the Father contemplating from all eternity as in a mirror His Divine Perfections and thereby begetting eternally the Eternal Son and the Holy Spirit proceeding out of Father and Son from all eternity—were easier of acceptance by his mind by reason of their august incomprehensibility than was the simple fact that God had loved his soul…†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love, since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love from all eternity.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Life became a divine gift for every moment and sensation of which, were it even the sight of a single leaf hanging on the twig of a tree, his soul should praise and thank the Giver.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- The world for all its solid substance and complexity no longer existed for his soul save as a theorem of divine power and love and universality.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- So entire and unquestionable was this sense of the divine meaning in all nature granted to his soul that he could scarcely understand why it was in any way necessary that he should continue to live.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Yet that was part of the divine purpose and he dared not question its use, he above all others who had sinned so deeply and so foully against the divine purpose.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Yet that was part of the divine purpose and he dared not question its use, he above all others who had sinned so deeply and so foully against the divine purpose.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- ...holding his furled umbrella a span or two from him like a divining rod.
Chpt 5 (definition 3) *divining = used to discover something supernaturally
- I thought he might mean that CLARITAS is the artistic discovery and representation of the divine purpose in anything or a force of generalization which would make the esthetic image a universal one, make it outshine its proper conditions.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (divine as in: divined through intuition) to discover something -- usually through intuition or reflection
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(2) (divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(3) (divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)