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divinely en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English divine Middle English -ly English -ly English divinely From divine + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a divine manner.
   • Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed. 1894, A. J. Gordon, The Ministry of the Spirit:
   • And od'rous trees in prodigal array, With all the elements divinely calm 1832, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19,:
   • […] And many an old philosophy ⁠On Argive heights divinely sang, ⁠And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 40:
   • I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted questio 1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
   • Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?" 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables:
   • 1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20, And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought, By envy sore distraught, Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers, Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,

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Deriveds

undivinely