All 5 Uses of
divine
in
The House of Mirth
- Through the boughs of the long avenue beyond the gardens she caught the flash of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approaching.†
Chpt 1.4
- Ah, my dear Miss Bart, I am not divine Providence, to guarantee your enjoying the things you are trying to get!†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Men do not, at worst, suffer much from such exposure; and in this instance the flash of divination which had carried the meaning of the letters to Lily's brain had revealed also that they were appeals—repeated and therefore probably unanswered—for the renewal of a tie which time had evidently relaxed.†
Chpt 1.9
- Few women took the trouble to make themselves agreeable to Dorset, and Lily had been kind to him at Bellomont, and was now smiling on him with a divine renewal of kindness.†
Chpt 1.10
- The consciousness of his half-divined reluctance had vanished.†
Chpt 2.12 *
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)