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noun

Divinity n. (pl. divinities)

The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. "When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation."

The Deity; the Supreme Being; God. "This the divinity that within us."

A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. "Beastly divinities, and droves of gods."

A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man. "God... employing these subservient divinities."

Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe. "They say there is divinity in odd numbers." "There's such divinity doth hedge a king."

The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology. "Divinity is essentially the first of the professions."

Case divinity, casuistry.

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Etymology of 'Divinity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... pestilence was raging, I preached a sermon about Rachel weeping for her children, which Thomas Thorl, who was surely a great judge of good preaching, said, "was a monument of divinity whilk searched the heart of many a parent that day;" a thing I was well pleased to hear, for Thomas, as I have related at length, was the most zealous champion against my getting the parish; but, from this time, I set him down in my mind for the next vacancy among the elders. Worthy man! it ...

— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

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— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... a stir and shuffle, as it might be of sympathy with his lost divinity, and every eye was fixed on that tall, lean figure, with the shaven face, ...

— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy

... right spindling; they don't belong in Greenstream either." David commented: "I wouldn't have et a thing till I'd got them!" In the ruddy reflection of the lamp his pink-and-blue charm, his shy lips, resembled a pastoral divinity of ...

— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer

... "Exclusive of offerings of scented candles, several catties of scented oil can be added, each day, to keep the lantern of the Great Sea alight. This 'Great Sea' lantern is the visible embodiment and Buddhistic representation of this divinity, so day and night we don't venture to ...

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