Sample Sentences for
divine
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(editor-reviewed)

divine as in:  to forgive is divine

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    it occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.  (source)
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    Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.  (source)
    divine = wonderful; or god-like
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    ...that is forbidden by the most ancient of divine laws.  (source)
    divine = related to the gods
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    I wish he was mine, he's really divine,  (source)
    divine = wonderful
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    Divinity in every careless gesture  (source)
    Divinity = something that is wonderful
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    Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful.  (source)
    divinely = wonderfully
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    The matchmaker and the diviner left, both with promises that they would return to check my progress.†  (source)
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    We have offended all the oldest divinities, in every thinkable way.†  (source)
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    He thought Miss 'Melia's playing the divinest music ever performed, and her the finest lady.†  (source)
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    Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    On it was written the third verse of America, the Beautiful: America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine.  (source)
    divine = wonderful (or coming from God)
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    Every winter, we had finger sandwiches, punch and divinity candy at their house on Christmas Eve.†  (source)
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    "You dance divinely, my dear Ida," I said.  (source)
    divinely = wonderfully
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divine as in:  divined from tea leaves

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    She claimed she could divine a person’s future by reading tea leaves at the bottom of a cup.
    divine = predict supernaturally
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    These stones were the only form of divination.  (source)
    divination = magical discovery
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    Perfect deliberation, divination, and desperation  (source)
    divination = the act of predicting something by magic
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    To learn anything more about the quarter, I would have to cast a series of high-level divination spells on it.  (source)
    divination = magical discovery
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It's like divining for water.  (source)
    divining = finding in a supernatural way
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    Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves.†  (source)
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    Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader's right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her.†  (source)
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    It cannot be that it has gone, the yearning that made our blood unquiet, the unknown, the perplexing, the oncoming things, the thousand faces of the future, the melodies from dreams and from books, the whispers and divinations of women; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment, in despair, in brothels.  (source)
    divinations = predictions
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Because it was said Crazy Horse divined that he would be successful in war only if he never stopped to gather the spoils of battle, and to remind himself of this, he tattooed lightning bolts behind his horses' ears.  (source)
    divined = predicted or discovered something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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    After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.  (source)
    diviner = someone who practices the art of learning of the future through supernatural means
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    44:5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She divineth" in older English, today we say "She divines."
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    His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undivined means not and reverses the meaning of divined. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder;…  (source)
    divination = supernatural prediction
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divine as in:  divined through intuition

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    She wouldn't talk about it, but I was able to divine that the project isn't going well.
    divine = figure out
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    The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.  (source)
    divine = discover
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    What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.  (source)
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    Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say.  (source)
    divined = discovered (figured out)
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    She would divine his attitude at once and...  (source)
    divine = discover (figure out)
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    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining  (source)
    divining = trying to discover through reflection (thinking)
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    And with all speed post with him toward the north, To shun the danger that his soul divines.  (source)
    divines = to discover something through intuition or reflection
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    On the other hand, possibly because he divined in Buck a dangerous rival, Spitz never lost an opportunity of showing his teeth.  (source)
    divined = predicted
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    One still has time before one to divine.  (source)
    divine = discover something through intuition or reflection
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    Mrs. Tilley gave amazed attention to all this, but Sylvia still watched the toad, not divining, as she might have done at some calmer time, that the creature wished to get to its hole under the door-step, and was much hindered by the unusual spectators at that hour of the evening.  (source)
    divining = discovering something
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    The defense had divined what they could from the notes but...  (source)
    divined = discovered
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    While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his thought in mine.  (source)
    divine = discover
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    Hadn't her last note spelled it out, so plainly that an innocent six-year-old could have divined its meaning, and hadn't I been negligent, feloniously so, in failing to hurry after her immediately rather than taking that brainless bus ride across the Potomac?  (source)
    divined = discovered (figured out)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    Philadelphia, where Father Divine reigned, wasn't all that far away.  (source)
    Divine = a name in this novel
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    It wasn't the divinity from the foreman's wife that made him sick.  (source)
    divinity = a soft white candy
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    A big sack of divinity.  (source)
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    It's sweet, divinity is.  (source)
    divinity = a soft white candy
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    O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd, To mangle me with that word banishment?  (source)
    divine = a priest
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