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
Can the half-divine thought of Plato, rising in storeys of sequential ideas, following each other to the conclusion, endure here?
From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard
The stranger came nearer; there was something half-diabolical, half-divine in the smile that he gave Helene.
From A Woman of Thirty by Balzac, Honoré de
It is certain that we must not confuse these kings, as did the mediæval chroniclers, with those half-divine kings of Almhuin.
From Gods and Fighting Men by Gregory, Lady
