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
The seed of beautiful life they sowed grew and blossomed out into great cities and half-divine civilizations.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
Later, it extended to winners at the public games, athletes, runners, boxers;—but this class of persons partook, in the national feeling, of a heroic or half-divine superiority.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin
Half-pagan, half-divine, Denby, the young cover artist, badly smitten, once put it with striking unoriginality.
From Winner Take All by Larry Evans
