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† divinesse Obs.
[Compressed variant of divineness; perh. with some thought of F. -esse, as in richesse and Eng. idlesse: cf. profaness, proness, etc.]
a. Divination.
b. Divineness, divinity; divine quality or character.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits iv. (1596) 46 The first who tearmed these maruellous matters by the name of diuinesse was Hippocrates; and that if any such point of diuinesse bee found in the disease, that it manifesteth also a prouidence. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iv. §2. 18 Poesie..was euer thought to haue some participation of diuinesse. Ibid. §4. 19 Enquirers into truth..will despise those delicacies and affectations, as indeede capable of no diuinesse. |