All 7 Uses of
divine
in
East of Eden
- I don't know whether it was a divine stupidity or a great faith that let them do it.†
Chpt 2
- When a child first catches adults out--when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just--his world falls into panic desolation.†
Chpt 3
- The teacher of Latin was a pale intense young man who had failed in divinity school and yet had enough education to teach the inevitable grammar, Caesar, Cicero.†
Chpt 8
- He wrote letters so persuasive that the directors of his divinity school looked favorably on readmitting him.†
Chpt 8
- Do you then not think this is a divine book written by the inky finger of God?†
Chpt 24
- I think the mind that could think this story was a curiously divine mind.†
Chpt 24
- But you do not believe this is divine law.
Chpt 24 *divine = coming from God
Definition:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God