Both Uses of
divine
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- It was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed.†
p. 11..2 *
- The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.†
p. 89..3
Definition:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God