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Diverse   /daɪvˈərs/  /dɪvˈərs/   Listen
adjective
Diverse  adj.  
1.
Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. "The word... is used in a sense very diverse from its original import." "Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she."
2.
Capable of various forms; multiform. "Eloquence is a great and diverse thing."


verb
Diverse  v. i.  To turn aside. (Obs.) "The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart."


adverb
Diverse  adv.  In different directions; diversely.





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"Diverse" Quotes from Famous Books



... commodities are secondary in importance in comparison with others to which I have referred; yet, considered together, they will add greatly to the importance of this new colony. Similarly, I will pass over the diverse products which are sure to be furnished by the prolific archipelagos, and of which several are likely to become of great value and to fetch high prices for use in the arts and in medicine. For example, the cargo ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... weave: The pulse in that vein making alien pause And varying beats from this; Down each long finger felt, a differing strand Of silvery welcome bland; And in her breezy palm And silken wrist, Beneath the touch of my like numerous bliss Complexly kiss'd, A diverse and distinguishable calm? What should we say! It all has been before; And yet our lives shall now be first fulfill'd, And into their summ'd sweetness fall distill'd One sweet drop more; One sweet drop ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore
... (2) that the natural psychological evolution of the human mind has in the various times and climes led folk of the most diverse surroundings and heredity—and perhaps even sprung from separate anthropoid stocks—to develop their social and religious ideas along the same general lines—and that even to the extent of exhibiting at times a remarkable similarity ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... now in greater number, go off to the woods, some afoot, others on horseback. As on the day preceding, they divide into different parties, and scatter in diverse directions. Though not till after all have revisited the ensanguined spot under the cypress, and renewed their scrutiny of the stains. Darker than on the day before, they now look more like ink ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... feeding upon His spiritual, life-giving flesh and blood, so that Salvation is not tied to external sacraments, but stands only in the faith that Christ feeds us with Himself.[10] There are, he proceeds to show, two radically diverse natures, the traits and {143} characteristics of which he arranges in opposing pairs, in two ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones


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