God-given
[god-giv-uh n]
- given by, or coming directly from, God: the God-given laws.
- welcome; propitious; opportune.
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Origin of God-given
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Contemporary Examples
And this, in turn, reinforced the religious vision of a God-given binary.
In America, we reserve our God-given right to be god-awful wrong.
It turns a god-given right into a government-given privilege.
Brooks: Lacking work in television, I had to find another outlet for my God-given brilliance.
There are several other causes of pinkness though our God-given presence of a second eye often helps limit the possibilities.
Historical Examples
And with that came another God-given thought of self-accusing.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Consequently the expression of a freeman's will is as God-given as his right to be free.
Where results seemed inevitable, it dared not claim them as God-given.
Evolution in Modern ThoughtErnst Haeckel
What was right—what wrong, but what our own God-given judgment told us?
All Roads Lead to CalvaryJerome K. Jerome
Therefore rights can never be "natural" or "God-given," or absolute in any sense.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner