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divine
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divine as in:  to forgive is divine

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    A demigod, his kind were called, mortal themselves but blessed by their divine parentage.  (source)
    divine = coming from a god
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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)
    divine = coming from God
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    I wish he was mine, he's really divine,  (source)
    divine = wonderful
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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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    Divinity in every careless gesture  (source)
    Divinity = something that is wonderful
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    "You dance divinely, my dear Ida," I said.  (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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    In the aftermath of the Revolution, the Bolsheviks had ushered them straight to the door (along with divinities, doubts, and all the other troublemakers).†  (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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    His words are divine messages, which you are free and independent to interpret.  (source)
    divine = coming from God
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    Christopher, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system.†  (source)
    Divinity = the state of being god-like; or of being a god
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    He recited from Norman Vincent Peale, " 'I believe I am always divinely guided. I believe I will always take the right turn of the road.' "  (source)
    divinely = of God
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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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    To learn anything more about the quarter, I would have to cast a series of high-level divination spells on it.  (source)
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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
    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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    The rector, furthermore, was not standing mute, but answering my father in the kind of language I had never heard from him: coarse words that he did not learn from the great Divines at Cambridge.†  (source)
    Divines = predicts or discovers something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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    I vowed that from here on I would use diviners only to find propitious dates.†  (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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    Telemachus does not understand these things; listen therefore to me, for I can divine them surely, and will hide nothing from you.... I saw an omen when I was on the ship which meant...  (source)
    divine = to discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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    In vision wrapp'd, the Hyperesian seer Uprose, and thus divined the vengeance near:  (source)
    divined = predicted (by magic)
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    Tiresias, thou whose mind divineth well All Truth, the spoken and the unspeakable, [Sidenote: vv.†  (source)
    divineth = predicts or discovers something supernaturally (as if by magic)
    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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    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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    His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life.†  (source)
    undivined = not predicted or discovered
    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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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 defense had divined what they could from the notes but...  (source)
    divined = discovered
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    Himmler, whose own biography reveals him to be (whatever else) a superlative judge of assassins, surely divined in Hoss a man cut out for the important line of work he had in mind, for the next sixteen years of Hoss's life were spent either directly as Commandant of concentration camps or in upper-echelon jobs connected with their administration.  (source)
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    Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say.  (source)
    divined = discovered (figured out)
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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)
    divine = discover
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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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    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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    Francois was surprised, too, when they shot out in a tangle from the disrupted nest and he divined the cause of the trouble.  (source)
    divined = discovered
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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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    ...whatever he had heard or divined in childhood of the strange and terrible.  (source)
    divined = learned through intuition or reflection
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    ...he would divine the truth in the flash of an eye.  (source)
    divine = discover through intuition
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    As you have divined, sir, we are not mad; neither are we violent or bloodthirsty.  (source)
    divined = discovered
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rare meaning

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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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