All 7 Uses of
divine
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- ...she is absolutely and entirely divine.
Chpt 3 *divine = wonderful
- It is the divinest thing in us.†
Chpt 6
- She is perfectly charming; and Patti sang divinely.†
Chpt 7
- You can talk to me of other women being charming, and of Patti singing divinely, before the girl you loved has even the quiet of a grave to sleep in?†
Chpt 7
- It has its divine right of sovereignty.†
Chpt 2
- "What a place to find one's divinity in!" said Lord Henry.†
Chpt 5
- It was here I found her, and she is divine beyond all living things.†
Chpt 5
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 discover or predict 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) 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.