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divine
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Sophie's Choice
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- Finally, by deduction I pegged you for a Polack, excuse me, divined that you were of Polish extraction.
p. 154.1divined = discovered
- Himmler, whose own biography reveals him to be (whatever else) a superlative judge of assassins, surely divined in Hoss a man cut out for the important line of work he had in mind, for the next sixteen years of Hoss's life were spent either directly as Commandant of concentration camps or in upper-echelon jobs connected with their administration.
p. 162.4
- Despite her eagerness and all her past abandon—I instinctively divined—she wanted to be cosseted and flattered and seduced and entertained like any woman, and this was fine with me, since Nature had clearly designed such a scheme to enhance man's delight as well.
p. 184.8
- I removed the receiver from my ear and turned to Sophie, who, with mouth agape, had clearly divined what it was that Nathan had been raging about.
p. 486.6
- He had suffered boredom and anxiety, and even revulsion, but no sense of sin from the bestial crimes he had been party to, nor had he felt that in sending thousands of the wretched innocent to oblivion he had transgressed against divine law.
p. 532.7 *divine = coming from God
- Hadn't her last note spelled it out, so plainly that an innocent six-year-old could have divined its meaning, and hadn't I been negligent, feloniously so, in failing to hurry after her immediately rather than taking that brainless bus ride across the Potomac?
p. 551.1 *divined = discovered (figured out)
- Like Sophie, like Nathan too, I was at that time of life—long before Rock or the resurgence of Folk—when music was more than simple meat and drink, it was an essential opiate and something resembling the divine breath.†
p. 126.9
- Perhaps because my coming assignation with the divine Lapidus had caused me to oscillate between rapture and apprehension, I tried to quell both emotions by drinking several cans of beer—thus violating my self-imposed rule about alcohol during daylight or working hours.†
p. 168.9
- her skin like divine hands, touching her with ecstatic ice; chill after chill coursed through her flesh; for long seconds the fog and night of her existence, through which she had stumbled like a sleepwalker, evaporated as if melted by the burning sun.†
p. 251.7
- They simply did not concern her—at least until as his dragooned secretary she began to divine the depth and extent of her father's fiery enthusiasm.†
p. 262.8
- And he gave her and shared in everything she could possibly have wanted: record albums of beautiful music, tickets to concerts, Polish books and French books and American books, divine meals in restaurants of every ethnic description all over Brooklyn and Manhattan.†
p. 340.6
- But it was too much, too much to bear—all this divine, accomplished friction and (My God, I thought, she called me "darling") the sudden command to join her in paradise: with a bleat of dismay like that of a ram being slaughtered I felt my eyelids slam shut and I let loose the floodgates in a pulsing torrent.†
p. 391.7
- The generous, neurotic man had obviously followed Eva, or rather, chased as well as he could after the children, hurrying these many blocks out of some preoccupation or reason which Sophie could not possibly divine.†
p. 406.9
- It was the slave boy Artiste who had provided me with the wherewithal for much of this summer's sojourn in Brooklyn; by the posthumous sacrifice of his flesh and hide he had done a great deal to keep me afloat during the early stages of my book, so perhaps it was divine justice that Artiste would support me no longer.†
p. 459.2
- We were to have a little trouble regarding the officiating divine; he was a disaster, but I was happily unaware of this as I stood with Larry that afternoon, greeting the mourners.†
p. 555.8
Definitions:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(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.