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# divine

«divine» in Mova's school dictionary: **of God or a god, or coming from God, as in "divine love"…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (divine, more divine); verb (divine, divines, divined, divining — to guess, to find water)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (religion) Divine means of God or a god, or coming from God, as in "divine love" or "divine help". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#m1)

2) (informal) Divine means wonderful or delicious: "This cake is divine!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#m2)

3) To divine is to guess or discover something by a feeling; water divining is looking for water underground with a stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#m3)

4) The divine is God, or the holy power that religious people believe in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In RE, Christians speak of Jesus as both human and divine; Hindus speak of many forms of the divine. In everyday talk a grown-up might say a chocolate pudding is "simply divine". Science pupils may hear that water divining has not been shown to work in fair tests. Phrases: divine intervention, divine love, the divine, simply divine.

### examples

- Christians believe Jesus is divine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x1)
- The hymn praised God's divine love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x2)
- "Your soup is divine!" said Aunty Pat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x3)
- Some people say the rescue was divine intervention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x4)
- She divined from his face that something was wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x5)
- Water divining hasn't been proved by scientific tests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x6)
- False faith may escape human punishment, but cannot escape the divine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/#x7)

### note

Adverb divinely; noun divinity (also RE in some schools). "Divine" as "delicious" is a bit posh and old-fashioned. Say "dih-VINE".

### In the corpora

- [Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1442/)
- [And Saul had put away those that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.813/)
- [A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth trespasseth not in judgment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.453/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «divine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.