jure divino
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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If I was out at sea in a boat with a jure divino monarch, and he wanted to throw me overboard, I would not let him.
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Up to that time Defoe had written nothing but occasional literature, and, except the History of the Union and Jure Divino, nothing of any great length.
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In a passage in The Jewel, he plainly declares his belief "that there is no government, whether ecclesiastical or civil, upon earth that is jure divino, if that divine right be taken in a sense secluding all other forms of government, save it alone, from the privilege of that title."
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On the other hand, though he denied that episcopacy existed jure divino, he was opposed to its abolition; fearing the establishment of the Presbyterian system, which in Scotland had proved equally tyrannical.
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Pray, tell me, how much money will these new ministers of ours bring into the king's coffers, by this jure divino system?
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