Meanings
comparative more divinely · superlative most divinely
- In a divine manner.
And od'rous trees in prodigal array, With all the elements divinely calm
1832, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19,5 more examples
1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20, And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought, By envy sore distraught, Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers, Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,
Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed.
1894, A. J. Gordon, The Ministry of the Spirit[…] And many an old philosophy On Argive heights divinely sang, And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 40Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green GablesI tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted questio
1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet)
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