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Divinity

noun

(pl. divinities)

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: deity, god, immortal.

The quality of being divine.

White creamy fudge made with egg whites. Synonym: divinity fudge.

The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. Synonym: theology.

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... the Congregation House was all too small. A Divinity School seems to have been first projected in 1423; building began about seven years later;[1] but the work proceeded very slowly, owing to want of money, which the authorities tried to raise in various ways, even ...

— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage

... creatures," as it is developed in the Song of Songs; see v.9 et seq.[74] My father's God]. He is; and I will exalt Him. My father's God]. I am not the first who received this consecration; but on the contrary His holiness and His divinity have continued to rest upon me from ...

— Rashi • Maurice Liber

... said Belle. "That's why I asked Dr. Jebb to let me break the news. For a serious divinity student, it's wonderful what a good imitation you can give of a man ...

— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

... say, Nurse Periwinkle is forever grateful; and among her relics of that Washington defeat, none is more valued than the little book which appeared on her pillow, one dreary day; for the D D. written in it means to her far more than Doctor of Divinity. ...

— Hospital Sketches • Louisa May Alcott

... literal, and it was a constant delight and source of congratulation to him to reflect over his pipe on the lounge after supper that the charming piece of flesh and blood sewing or reading demurely close by was the divinity of his domestic hearth. There she was to smile at him when he came home at night and enable him to forget the cares and dross of the varnish business. Her presence across the table added a new zest to every meal ...

— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant

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