All 3 Uses of
divine
in
The Chrysalids
- Above all, he must see that the human form is kept true to the divine pattern in order that one day it may be permitted to regain the high place in which, as the image of God, it was set.†
Chpt 4
- Accursed is the mutant… The mutant, the enemy, not only of the human race, but of all the species God had decreed; the seed of the Devil within, trying unflaggingly, eternally to come to fruition in order that it might destroy the divine order and turn our land, the stronghold of God's will upon Earth, into a lewd chaos like the Fringes; trying to make it a place without the law, like the lands in the South that Uncle Axel had spoken of, where the plants and the animals and the…†
Chpt 8
- Even Old Jacob had to admit that divine displeasure was in abeyance for the time being.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God