divinely
advEtymology From divine + -ly.
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In a divine manner.
- And od'rous trees in prodigal array, With all the elements divinely calm1832, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19,:
- 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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- 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 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:
- 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:
- 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 questio1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
- Derived terms
- undivinely