Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being divine.
- noun The godhead; God. Used with the.
- noun A deity, such as a god or goddess.
- noun Godlike character.
- noun Theology.
- noun A soft white candy, usually containing nuts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being divine; deity; godhead; the nature of God; divine nature.
- noun [capitalized] God; the Deity; the Supreme Being: generally with the definite article.
- noun In general, a celestial being; a divine being, or one regarded as divine; a deity.
- noun That which is divine in character or quality; a divine attribute; supernatural power or virtue.
- noun The science of divine things; the science which treats of the character of God, his laws and moral government, the duties of man, and the way of salvation; theology: as, a system of divinity; a doctor of divinity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
- noun The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
- noun A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
- noun A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
- noun Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.
- noun The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.
- noun casuistry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The property of being
divine , of being like agod orGod . - noun countable A
deity (a god,goddess or God). - noun uncountable The study of religion or religions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
- noun white creamy fudge made with egg whites
- noun the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
- noun the quality of being divine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let me give something that will lead each one to the knowledge of the divinity of every human soul, something that will lead each one to the conscious realization of _his own divinity_, with all its attendant riches, and glories, and powers, -- let me succeed in doing this, and I can then well afford to be careless as to whether the critics praise or whether they blame.
In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Ralph Waldo Trine 1912
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To maintain the obnoxious claim that only "your" version of divinity is real and everybody else's experience of God is delusionary only disses other people and pisses them off.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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From this concept also comes the notion that divinity is both eminent (internal) and transcendent (external).
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From this concept also comes the notion that divinity is both eminent (internal) and transcendent (external).
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To maintain the obnoxious claim that only "your" version of divinity is real and everybody else's experience of God is delusionary only disses other people and pisses them off.
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists 2009
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Is this because they are the so called “Chosen People,” the answer of divinity is one of speculation and cannot really be answered.
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More likely, the divinity is too busy to bother, though.
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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We are not being taught to love a material world in which the immanent divinity is manifest.
A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006
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We are not being taught to love a material world in which the immanent divinity is manifest.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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The whole premise of needing an ‘organization’ to find divinity is not only idiotic, but inherently invalid.
Think Progress » What Americans Want In A Supreme Court Justice 2005
ofravens commented on the word divinity
I came
God-fathered into the world from my mother's belly:
Her wide bed wore the stain of divinity.
from "Electra on Azalea Path," by Sylvia Plath
April 8, 2008