All 6 Uses of
divine
in
Man And Superman
- Fortunately for us, whose minds have been so overwhelmingly sophisticated by literature, what produces all these treatises and poems and scriptures of one sort or another is the struggle of Life to become divinely conscious of itself instead of blindly stumbling hither and thither in the line of least resistance.†
Chpt Ded. *
- You suddenly see that Shakespear, with all his flashes and divinations, never understood virtue and courage, never conceived how any man who was not a fool could, like Bunyan's hero, look back from the brink of the river of death over the strife and labor of his pilgrimage, and say "yet do I not repent me"; or, with the panache of a millionaire, bequeath "my sword to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."†
Chpt Ded.
- [touched; for he divines a secret sorrow] I'm very sorry, Malone.†
Chpt 2 *
- How can you look round at these august hills, look up at this divine sky, taste this finely tempered air, and then talk like a literary hack on a second floor in Bloomsbury?†
Chpt 3
- The doctors of divinity bade me consider what I must do to save my soul; but I was not a spiritual hypochondriac any more than a bodily one, and would not trouble myself about that either; so they called me Atheist and went their way.†
Chpt 3
- You see, I shall have to live up always to your idea of my divinity; and I don't think I could do that if we were married.†
Chpt 3
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)