All 4 Uses of
divine
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- such divine perfection
Scene 2.7 *divine = wonderful (or god-like)
- let me see; ay, give it me, it's mine; Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!†
Scene 2.1
- Call her divine.†
Scene 2.4
- Then speak the truth by her; if not divine, Yet let her be a principality, Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.†
Scene 2.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(2)
(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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(3)
(divine as in: divined through intuition) to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the time of Shakespeare, divine was sometimes used as a noun to reference a priest or a person of the church. (To remember that sense, think of the clergyman as having come from God).
Divinity typically refers to a god or to a school of religion, but on rare occasions, it refers to the name of a kind of soft white candy. To remember that sense, you might think of it as tasting divine/wonderful.