divine
adjective
of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
half-divine
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a word derived from
divine.
Example Sentences
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That’s never going to be easy to encapsulate, even when the heroine is half-divine, the daughter of a god and an Amazon queen.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2017
Henderson’s totemic character is Polyphemus, the half-divine Cyclops whose appearance in Homer’s “Odyssey” is one of the poem’s most harrowing episodes.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015
Often man is fashioned out of clay, or stone, or other materials, by a Maker of all things, sometimes half-human or bestial, but also half-divine.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
You lived in a land horror-haunted, And wrote with a pen half-divine; You drank bitter sorrow, undaunted And cast precious pearls before swine.
From Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse by Edwin Carty Ranck
Do not make it a kind of half-human, half-divine institution, which you may build up, but can not regulate.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
