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divine
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...he would divine the truth in the flash of an eye.
Chpt 7 *

divine = discover through intuition
She could not think how to meet the situation, even had she divined what the situation was to be.†
Chpt 2
She divined in Roberts a cold and grim acceptance of something he had expected.†
Chpt 2
She divined that he could not help it.†
Chpt 3
She was quick to divine from that the inference in his words—he suspected her of flirting with those ruffians, perhaps to escape him through them.†
Chpt 3 *
But she divined when he was thinking what a picture she looked there, on her knees before the bread-pan, with flour on her arms; of the difference a girl brought into any place; of how strange it seemed that this girl, instead of lying a limp and disheveled rag under a tree, weeping and praying for home, made the best of a bad situation and unproved it wonderfully by being a thoroughbred.†
Chpt 4
And he kept this up until Joan divined that he was not so much interested in what he apparently wished to learn as he was in her presence, her voice, her personality.†
Chpt 4
Joan divined that these comrades had caused the difference in him.†
Chpt 6
She divined that there was antagonism between Gulden and all the others.†
Chpt 7
Joan divined that Kells buckled on his gun to be ready to protect her.†
Chpt 8
It was difficult, because she divined Pearce's curiosity held a trap to catch her in a falsehood.†
Chpt 8
His pain and shame were dreadful for Joan to see, because she felt sorry for him, and divined that behind them would rise the darker, grimmer force of the man.†
Chpt 9
Something in his strange eyes inspired Joan with a flashing, reviving divination.†
Chpt 9
Out of all this complexity of emotion Joan divined that what she yearned most for was to spare Cleve the shame consequent upon recognition of her and then the agony he must suffer at a false conception of her presence there.†
Chpt 10
She had already seen enough to whiten her hair, she thought, yet she divined her experience would shrink in comparison with what was to come.†
Chpt 11
Kells gave one astounded glance at her, and then, divining her purpose, he laughed thrillingly and mockingly, as if the sight of her was a spur, as if her courage was a thing to admire, to permit, and to regret.†
Chpt 11
Joan divined the vain and futile and tragical nature of Kell's great enterprise.†
Chpt 12
Joan sustained an uplifting divination—no man was utterly bad.†
Chpt 12
She divined that Kells wanted her to attract attention, but for what reason she was at a loss to say.†
Chpt 14
It was worse than the time of the medieval crimes of religion; it made war seem a brave and honorable thing; it robbed manhood of that splendid and noble trait, always seen in shipwrecked men or those hopelessly lost in the barren north, the divine will not to retrograde to the savage.†
Chpt 14
Joan divined that he might yield to her wisdom, he might become a man, but his agony would be greater.†
Chpt 15
Joan trembled, for she divined what none of these robbers knew, and it was that Pearce was perilously near death.†
Chpt 15
Joan had thought of this so fearfully and intensely—she had battled so to fortify herself to keep it secret—that he had divined it, had read her mind.†
Chpt 16
With all that was left of her spirit she flashed him a warning—a meaning—a prayer not to do the deed she divined was his deadly intent.†
Chpt 16
She divined that.†
Chpt 19
He let her go and turned away, and in that instant Joan had a final divination that this strange man could rise once to heights as supreme as the depths of his soul were dark.†
Chpt 19 *

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(1) (divine as in: to forgive is divine)
wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
(2) (divine as in: divined from tea leaves)
to discover or predict something supernaturally (as if by magic)
(3) (divine as in: divined through intuition)
to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
(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.

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.

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divine
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The Border Legion
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