All 5 Uses of
divine
in
Bleak House
- I should be sorry to imply that Mr. Skimpole divined this and was politic; I really never understood him well enough to know.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- But what Mr. Weevle prizes most of all his few possessions (next after his light whiskers, for which he has an attachment that only whiskers can awaken in the breast of man) is a choice collection of copper-plate impressions from that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fashion in every variety of smirk that art, combined with capital, is capable of producing.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- At what time of the night he had gone, or how, or why, it seemed hopeless ever to divine.†
Chpt 31-33
- So Charley became as quiet as a mouse and took her bright face here and there across and across the two rooms, out of the shade into the divine sunshine, and out of the sunshine into the shade, while I watched her peacefully.†
Chpt 34-36
- The sorrow that has been in her face—for it is not there now—seems to have purified even its innocent expression and to have given it a diviner quality.†
Chpt 66-67
Definitions:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)