Synonyms:
deity, divinity, god, immortal
Meaning: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Synonyms:
divinity
Meaning: the quality of being divine; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs"
Usage examples
The divinity of kings, the God-given right to rule, was shattered for all time.
And they were equally eminent in sacred learning--Theology, Divinity, and the Holy Scriptures.
She had been his divinity, his madonna; he had loved in her that, which was her truer, her better self.
Yet he hoped to see her again; for each one fancies that his romance has its own tutelary guardian and divinity.
Of this she was all unconscious, but was as chary with her fingers as though it seemed that she could ill spare her divinity.
"Now, we must set the table," said Anne, in the tone of a priestess about to perform some sacred rite in honor of a divinity.
A surprizing run of luck in a gamester is often mistaken for somewhat else by persons who are not over-zealous believers in the divinity of fortune.
Not one, however, started with rapturous wonder on beholding her, no whisper of eager inquiry ran round the room, nor was she once called a divinity by anybody.
There is no Faith, as we used to call it: it is the vision of Facts that no one can doubt; and the incense declares the sole divinity of Life as well as its mystery."
The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus, which, in whatever relation regarded, is full of self-contradictions and absurdities, is, above all, pernicious in its moral and spiritual results.