All 5 Uses of
divine
in
Gone with the Wind
- But he dances divinely.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- Undeniably Captain Butler was a scamp, for all that he danced divinely.†
Chpt 2.11
- And Raiford Calvert, who danced so divinely, would never again choose her to be his partner.†
Chpt 3.19
- Isn't it divine?†
Chpt 2.9
- It now seemed very natural that she had said Yes—almost as if by divine intervention, a hand stronger than hers was about her affairs, settling her problems for her.†
Chpt 4.47
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.