Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a divine or godlike manner; in a manner resembling deity.
  • By the agency or influence of God: as, a prophet divinely inspired; divinely taught.
  • Excellently; in the supreme degree: as, divinely fair; divinely brave.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.
  • adverb By the agency or influence of God.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a divine manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb by divine means

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Examples

  • Does this failure to make a challenge mean that creationists and IDists are incapable of believing in divinely-guided anything, Bradford?

    Brayton vs. Moran 2006

  • What data supports the position that a belief in divinely guided evolution is in conflict with science?

    Brayton vs. Moran 2006

  • Our first feeble attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable is to fabricate the notion of divinely-granted free will as a get-out-of-jail pass for god.

    Jeff Schweitzer: To Find God...Just Skip Lunch 2009

  • Since religion is based on the idea of divinely revealed truth, most religions would rather hide their imperfections, the better to demonstrate that their practitioners are as infallible as their doctrines.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: When Men Become Primates 2008

  • It is not for me to think otherwise than humanly; theologians decide divinely, which is quite another thing: reason and faith are of contrary natures.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • And this coming from an atheist who takes no solace in the notion of divinely bestowed rights.

    STOPPARD ON FREE SPEECH TEV 2006

  • And this coming from an atheist who takes no solace in the notion of divinely bestowed rights.

    The Elegant Variation: TEV 2006

  • In addition, once writing was established we know that these “religions” all found justification in ancient texts, described as divinely inspired for those who bought into whatever version was being offered at the time.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

  • In addition, once writing was established we know that these “religions” all found justification in ancient texts, described as divinely inspired for those who bought into whatever version was being offered at the time.

    In Non-Belief More Prevalent Among Social Scientists?: Some Comments on the Harris/Prager Debate Christopher O'Brien 2006

  • Are not _they_ also chargeable with precisely the same offence who command us to submit implicitly to the so-called divinely-inspired Spirit of '_one_ living Infallible

    Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837

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