Both Uses of
divine
in
Childhood's End
- Within a few days, all mankind's multitudinous messiahs had lost their divinity.†
Chpt 6 *
- These held, if George remembered correctly, some fifteen thousand volumes-almost everything of importance that had ever been published on the nebulous subjects of magic, psychic research, divining, telepathy, and the whole range of elusive phenomena lumped in the category of paraphysics.†
Chpt 7 *
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)