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divineness|dɪˈvaɪnnɪs|
[-ness.]
1. The quality or state of being divine; divine nature, character, or origin; divinity, sacredness.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 84 The common nature of man, that hath in it both Divineness, and sometimes beastly brutishness. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxii. 507, I haue..prooued the trunesse and diuinenesse of the Scriptures. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions i. 2 Their admirable Motions and Order, in which the Heathen have acknowledged a Divineness. 1718Free-thinker No. 54 ⁋11 The real Excellency and Divineness of Virtue. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. xii, In all true Work..there is something of divineness.
2. Superhuman or supreme excellence.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 321 Besought him to repeate it againe, that..his minde might bee the better acquainted with the diuinenesse thereof. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. vii. 45 Behold Diuinenesse No elder then a Boy. |