Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: divinity
IPA transcription: [dɪv'ɪnəti]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.