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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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- She took back the divining bone.
Chpt 2.1 *divining = used to discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
- She often told me about her father, the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain, about the cave where they found the dragon bones, how the bones were divine and could cure any pain, except a grieving heart.†
Chpt 1.0 *
- Wendy was a divining rod for strange disturbances in the earth's atmosphere.†
Chpt 1.1
- So had the divine springs.†
Chpt 2.1
- The diviner put a hot nail to the bone, and it cracked like a tree hit by lightning.†
Chpt 2.1
- The coffinmaker went to a fortune-teller in Immortal Heart, a man who walked about the village with a divining stick.†
Chpt 2.1
- "The third level is Divine," he said.†
Chpt 2.4
- How could beauty be more than divine?†
Chpt 2.4
- We are divine, unchanged by time.†
Chpt 2.5
- And there in that safe place, I was with him, and he was kissing me when he told me, "We are divine, unchanged by time."†
Chpt 2.5
- I wrote: "You are beauty, we are beauty, we are divine, unchanged by time."†
Chpt 2.6
- One night, as Ruth held the chopstick in her hand, ready to divine more answers, she heard LuLing say: "Why you and Artie argue?"†
Chpt 3.1
- The diviners of the bones used a heated nail to crack the bone.†
Chpt 3.3
- I'm sure the more successful diviners were skilled at saying what the emperors wanted to hear.†
Chpt 3.3
- LuLing had divined it while looking at an oracle in the museum.†
Chpt 3.3 *
- Ruth is six years old again, the same child, her broken arm healed, her other hand holding a chopstick, ready to divine the words.†
Chpt 3.4
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 discover or predict something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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(divine as in: divined through intuition) to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
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(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.