I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divine inspiration (= inspiration from God )
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He prayed for divine inspiration.
divine mercy (= the mercy of God )
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He did not lose his faith in God and divine mercy.
divine retribution (= punishment by God )
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divine retribution
divine right
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Being my wife doesn’t give you the divine right to read my mail.
give...the divine right to
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Being my wife doesn’t give you the divine right to read my mail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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There were twenty days in the month, each being regarded as divine and of distinctive omen.
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Sometimes they were regarded as divine and worshiped.
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He is certainly not intended to be regarded as divine .
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He had to be seen to be human but not so human as to challenge his credibility as divine .
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The alliance, whether viewed as divine or malign, was formally enshrined in the School Certificate examination defined in 1917.
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Many people would refer to them more as superhuman than as divine characters.
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He is using your partner as divine sandpaper to take off the rough edges.
■ NOUN
being
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The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being .
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The people who made these images of divine beings and snakes did not do so arbitrarily.
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But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world.
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And yet, the idea of a Goddess, a wholly divine being , actually being born struck them as bizarre.
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Their descriptions seem sufficiently close to one another to be taken as descriptions of the same divine being .
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That would entail the existence of causal relations between such persons, in all their physical complexity, and the divine being .
body
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These two chapters move through the entire world of images and ideas surrounding the divine body .
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The worshipper who entered them felt as if he or she were entering a divine body .
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When we see existence itself as the divine body we create a more reciprocal relationship.
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How did the ancient people regard the divine body and its physical reality?
drama
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The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles, conundrums and endless interpretations.
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This, of course, brings us right back to the beginning of the divine drama .
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But if - for whatever reason - you take the Devil out of the redemption story, the divine drama is lost.
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Does not the divine drama seem to suggest that the Devil is calling the tune?
grace
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They would have said that their obsession was with divine grace .
guidance
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The ensuing silence indicated that I had not helped matters. l stared at my Keds, hoping for divine guidance .
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The future holds unlimited possibilities for those who will accept divine guidance and grace.
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Iphigenia and the others are acting under divine guidance .
inspiration
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A simple enough rule which struck his rather undeveloped mind with the force of divine inspiration .
intervention
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In the absence of divine intervention , virgin birth for mammals is not an option.
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And barring divine intervention , also its last.
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Nor did he find any room for divine intervention .
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Also patron of divine intervention and pregnant women.
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Looking back from the 860s, Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention .
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One is that devout patients may forgo treatment and wait for divine intervention .
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The future, politically and economically, looks quite too far gone for anything but a divine intervention to help.
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So how about a little divine intervention ?
justice
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Some might call that divine justice .
law
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Evidently the attainment of an ordered world consonant with divine laws remained the ideological framework of antislavery.
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Subjects therefore had to obey the laws of their earthly governors, in whatever they commanded that was not contrary to divine law.
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Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law .
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If there is no divine law men must try to agree among themselves what is right and what is wrong.
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History shows a variety of such sources: immemorial custom, divine law , the law of nature, a constitution.
love
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From there, they progressed to the enthralling problem of human and divine love .
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To deny the reality of the divine love is to enter the dark territory where it can not be found.
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Her husband, the Rev. George Butler, understood it as a true reflection of divine love .
origin
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As a gift of divine origin , there was nothing sacrilegious in their use.
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The emperor, who many believed to have divine origins , appeared to be merely human after all.
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We believe that human beings have a divine origin and an eternal destiny.
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It is, however, true that Roman aristocrats were usually wary of divine origins .
power
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Paul says' the weapons we fight with ... have divine power to demolish strongholds.
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All things in heaven and earth were mysteriously linked with the divine powers , but beautiful things most of all.
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The true whole divine power remained hidden and mysterious and mortal man was unable to see its perfection.
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Anyone who challenges my authority will have to stand up to this divine power when I come to Corinth.
presence
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Now every place where the Meal of the Lord is celebrated is made holy by this divine presence .
providence
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We thought there was some sort of divine providence which would somehow or other get us away.
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That is why the divine providence revealed himself in story.
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But divine providence interceded, for the wheel broke, the spikes flying off and injuring many bystanders.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of our contemporaries, the connection of events.
purpose
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It finds a place for everyone within the divine purpose , regardless of their background, status or gender.
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Nor do I accept the criticism of those who say this is a lightweight view of the divine purpose of humankind.
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What is truly disconcerting about the story is the result of the fall, and the divine purpose behind it.
retribution
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The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution .
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It is, I suppose, divine retribution for the treatment your whiteness receives in certain doctors' surgeries.
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Another piece of divine retribution for all those hours spent ticking others off came relatively recently.
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If California fell into the ocean, would it be divine retribution for making movies like this?
revelation
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On the one side the appeal was to reason; on the other, to faith and special divine revelation .
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To say that the Church was the sole conduit of divine revelation was to dictate terms to the Almighty.
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It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse.
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This, if you like, is divine revelation ...
right
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He was now a young Anglo-Catholic who acquired the Catholic sense of divine rights in the Church which no State can touch.
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I had a divine right and a solemn duty to warn them, but failed miserably.
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Anglican clergymen busied themselves with preaching up theories of divine right and non-resistance.
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At a stroke the party managers and fixers have lost their assumption of a divine right to power.
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Constantine was declared to be Emperor by divine right .
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James sought to reassert the divine right of kings, and Parliament combined against him.
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Both acts are morally wrong - Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages.
will
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Even the claim that the natural order reflected the contingency of a divine will could pull in two directions.
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The modern anguish stems from the absurdity of the allegory, once its center, divine Will , is removed.
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Although the innocent might suffer, such tragedies were often accepted philosophically as part of the divine will or punishment.
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Encountering him there, Dinah calmly tells him that she can not do without him-it is the divine will that they marry.
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The prophets they portray were at once more civilized than their masters and more closely in touch with the divine will .
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As long as matter was considered to be inert, its motion could be ascribed to the divine will .
word
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By distinguishing too sharply between the divine Word and the divine Spirit the Church has lost a most important biblical perspective.
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Arius differed from Origen in seeing the coming forth of the divine Word as a service to the inferior created order.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He offered a brief prayer for divine guidance.
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Singer Sarah Vaughan was often called "the Divine Sarah."
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The death of a child is commonly seen by members of the tribe as divine punishment.
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The emperor was considered the nation's divine spiritual leader.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Encountering him there, Dinah calmly tells him that she can not do without him-it is the divine will that they marry.
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He was fully human as well as fully divine .
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Instead, they recognized an interlocking trinity of types: animal, human, divine .
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The combination of sweet prunes and rabbit in this classic dish is divine .
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The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers.
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To perform them is to conform to the divine order which governs all human affairs.
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What we may recognize as a scientific principle was enunciated via the theological concept of divine immutability.
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Yes, it was truly divine .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He had apparently divined from my expression that I was not prepared.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Money experts now begin the tricky business of divining the fate of the economy.
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No one in the twenties could have divined this over-arching design, nor did Pound suppose that anyone would.
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Others will divine whether the Martins were lucky hobbyists or party stooges.
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Spoken words were not crucial because people should be able to divine the next move.
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They divined the contents of sealed envelopes by the simple expedient of opening the staples at the other end of the envelope.
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Together they divined for Charlie's talent.
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You can still divine water with a rod and be an agnostic.