| 单词 | divine spark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdivine spark b. divine spark: a trace of the divine nature in man. Also in trivial use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > state of being or divinity > trace of (in man) divine spark1853 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. vi. xxi. 180 The divine spark had fled from the human face; the Beast is everywhere growing more and more out of the thing that had been Man. 1920 H. J. Laski Let. 15 May in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 263 They may be stupid, lazy, what you will; but ninety-nine out of every hundred have a divine spark in them somewhere which sympathy and enthusiasm is sure to light. 1932 Week-End Rev. 9 Jan. 46/2 She felt she had not got into touch, had not given herself, had not transmitted the divine spark. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 1218/1 As originally formed, man was a powerless entity who wriggled on the ground like a worm..until a Divine spark set him on his feet. 1968 F. Lundberg Rich & Super-rich xv. 632 (heading) The divine spark among the rich. < as lemmas |
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