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divine
used in Frankenstein

2 meanings, 14 uses
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1  —13 uses as in:
to forgive is divine
Definition
wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
  • What a divine day!
    Chapter 22 (94% in)
divine = wonderful
Other Uses (with this meaning)
  • Will you smile at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer?
    Introductory Letters (88% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • It was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence.
    Chapter 5 (88% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • The present season was indeed divine; the flowers of spring bloomed in the hedges, while those of summer were already in bud.
    Chapter 6 (94% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandemonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.
    Chapter 11 (47% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • In the evening the young girl and her companion were employed in various occupations which I did not understand; and the old man again took up the instrument which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning.
    Chapter 11 (97% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • They conversed with one another through the means of an interpreter, and sometimes with the interpretation of looks; and Safie sang to him the divine airs of her native country.
    Chapter 14 (55% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • But I thought Werter himself a more divine being than I had ever beheld or imagined; his character contained no pretension, but it sank deep.
    Chapter 15 (12% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.
    Chapter 16 (87% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled.
    Chapter 18 (82% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • No, it is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.
    Chapter 18 (93% in)
    • divinely = wonderfully
  • For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
    Chapter 19 (42% in)
    • divine = wonderful
  • Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
    Chapter 21 (84% in)
divinest = most wonderful
There are no more uses of "divine" flagged with this meaning in Frankenstein.

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2  —1 use as in:
divined through intuition
Definition
to discover something — usually through intuition or reflection
  • The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.
    Chapter 2 (8% in)
divine = discover
There are no more uses of "divine" flagged with this meaning in Frankenstein.

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