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Definition of divinity in English: divinitynounPlural divinities dɪˈvɪnɪtidəˈvɪnədi mass noun1The state or quality of being divine. Example sentencesExamples - Despite the involvement of Freeman, not enough is made of his blessed divinity.
- Death - teach the Zoharic masters - is a diminishment of divinity.
- Saying that God assumes human form makes God small, diminishing both His unity and His divinity.
- We have within us a soul or a spark of inner divinity that is absolutely real and uncompromised.
- They're not philosophical concepts, beliefs or descriptions of an ultimate truth or divinity.
- She mounts a scholarly exposition of the widely held doctrines of Trinity, original sin, and divinity of Christ, relegating them to later accretions in history.
- The spark of divinity stays within the Jew eternally as a consequence of God's covenant with His people Israel.
- Indeed, when we attain higher consciousness through spiritual disciplines, we actually see or perceive divinity all around.
- Secondly, being raised up to heaven is again no proof of divinity or greatness.
- His life was for all, bringing everyone in his midst to purity, upliftment and divinity.
- In the battle between science and divinity, divinity came off second best.
- They promise divinity (a popular claim of New Agers) but deny us access to God.
- He begins to feel the same divinity in him and all others around him.
- And if they come from God, then it is a dark and awesome divinity, pulling us towards our fate, kicking and screaming.
- Imperialism was endowed with the halo of divinity.
- Then we have a history of divinity bestowed on idols, rivers and trees by men.
- Frankincense, which was burned in the shrines of numerous deities, represented divinity.
- Much like Taoism, divinity is divided between male and female, the Lord and Lady.
- Human history, particularly the history of the twentieth century, renders faith in an innate human divinity difficult for many of us.
- I think it is time to spread the word about human divinity and the universality of the spiritual path.
Synonyms divine nature, divineness, godliness, deity, godhead, holiness, sanctity, sanctitude, sacredness, blessedness - 1.1count noun A divine being; a god or goddess.
busts of Roman divinities Example sentencesExamples - The idols that have originally been introduced to serve as devotional media had got elevated to the status of divinity.
- The pagan insisted that divinity was in trees and in all of nature.
- There is ongoing interdependence between the living, the living-dead (those remembered by name), spirits and divinities, and the Supreme Being.
- Of all the religious practices and beliefs concerned with feminine divinities it is Shaktism which gives the Goddess a place of supreme importance.
- For the pagan, the alienation from divinity is so palpable and painful that it must be overcome at all costs, even if ethics are the price.
- To have your ultimate concern distributed in different directions is like polytheism - worship of many divinities.
- Traditionally, Nigerians believe that there are two types of divinities: the Supreme Being, and the subordinate deities.
- Agni, the fire God is an important Rig Vedic divinity.
- So that, actually, in India, Kali is the great divinity.
- The Vajrayana sect took this a step further and introduced female divinities to Buddhist worship akin to Hinduism.
- To be gripped by one great integrating, imperative concern or desire is like monotheism - worship of one divinity.
- A disciple of Confucius once asked, ‘Master, how should we treat the spirits and divinities?’
- We don't need a directive or a definable god to feel the presence of divinity.
- In ancient China mountains were seen as divinities who had the power to send needed rain.
- The rivers are female divinities, food and life bestowing mothers.
- Then, if one understands Brahma to be the transcendent aspect of divinity, the perception of Sarasvati as immanent accords well with Her being His shakti.
- They recognize a wide range of supernatural beings, including demons, ancestral spirits, and divinities such as the sun god Surya and the rice goddess Dewi Sri.
- True, he was a confirmed atheist, who had no patience for divinity, prayers or rituals.
- When meeting a scientist who also believes in divinity, the defiantly atheist New York Times science writer Natalie Angier starts popping mental veins.
- Mountains contain divinity or kami and are sources of necessary water.
Synonyms deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being creator, demiurge godhead daemon, numen, power Hinduism avatar - 1.2 God.
Example sentencesExamples - The Divinity is best manifest as human consciousness.
- This is almost identical to the last technique, but instead of a Holy Book saying it, some form of Divinity said it.
- A seeker of true Divinity will attain salvation when he realizes the Truth, the all-pervasive Brahman.
- Learn the right terms and the subtle differences in them, and you can explain the profound ways Hindus look at Divinity.
- It describes worship of Divinity through devotion to the physical yoni.
- After all, one of the key tenets of Paganism is that Divinity is immanent; it is around us and within us.
- I believe that there is one Divinity, nameless, who is both beyond nature and within nature, including man.
- Each incarnation of Divinity may be a separate entity just as each human is a separate person.
- That which is Sacred is so because it truly represents Divinity.
- Water the soil with love and humility and reap the fruits of Divinity.
- It is by far not the only idea about Divinity's structure, yet it is one which I find to be particularly insightful.
- When we use our limbs in accord with the sacred laws of nature, every action worships and praises the omniscient Divinity in all things.
- What is perfectly clear is the speech of the indescribable Divinity.
- Not that we offer to give up our life, but that we offer to devote it entirely to Divinity.
- We approach Spirit and Divinity with the noblest of intentions.
- Mary and Fred are not Humanity, but God is Divinity.
- The dhami initiates must plunge beneath the surface of the waters and enter into a trance to attract Divinity.
- Quite the contrary - Divinity creates within itself a sacred void in the form of a circle.
- Everything that Divinity created is infused with its essence.
- As a Neo-Pagan who believes in the immanent nature of Divinity, I am a great believer that all of the Earth is sacred.
2The study of religion; theology. Example sentencesExamples - But in 1973, Case's career took a sharp turn when he decided to study divinity at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.
- When I give a fellow an honorary doctor of divinity, it's just a little piece of paper.
- In 1984 he moved to Canada, where he did a masters in divinity and licentiate in moral theology at the University of Toronto.
- John Rogers, the first martyr, was a lecturer in divinity at St Paul's Cathedral, London.
- Having been an ordained pastor with a doctorate in divinity and a masters degree in biblical studies, he knew what had taken place.
- In several universities, divinity schools were among the most vibrant sources of ideas and sustained engagement.
- This school was the first of the ‘literary and theological institutions,’ a mixture of liberal arts and divinity objectives.
- He later earned a master of divinity from St. Paul School of Theology in 1974.
- His love affair with The Stand began in 2000 when the comic came to Edinburgh to study divinity.
- Queasiness at the sight of blood curtailed a medical career, and Darwin went to Cambridge to study divinity and join the church.
- Ukrainian Orthodox clergy are educated in divinity schools such as the Kyiv Theological Academy.
- In its 44 years the Union has had as prime ministers three generals, one doctor of divinity and now a ‘mister’.
- Going on to study divinity at the University of St Andrews, Playfair undertook his theological studies at St Mary's College, St Andrews.
- Seminaries, schools of theology, divinity schools, and churches must face the pressing and rising presence of diversity.
- He received his master of divinity degree from Moravian Theological Seminary in 1988 and was ordained that same year.
- Barrow had taken an oath to study divinity when he was admitted as a fellow, and, after briefly studying medicine, he began studying divinity again.
- He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1960 and earned a bachelor of divinity in 1965 and a master of theology in 1966 from King's College in London.
- Unlike his predecessors and most Lutheran clergy, Hanson earned his first divinity degree at a non-Lutheran institution, Union Theological Seminary in New York.
- He revolted from the Roman Church and by 1613-14 was again a Protestant, later becoming a doctor of divinity at Cambridge and chaplain to the king.
- It was simply pigeon-holed by these doctors of divinity.
Synonyms theology, religious studies, religion, scripture
Origin Middle English: from Old French divinite, from Latin divinitas, from divinus 'belonging to a deity' (see divine1). Rhymes affinity, asininity, clandestinity, femininity, infinity, masculinity, salinity, trinity, vicinity, virginity Definition of divinity in US English: divinitynoundəˈvinədēdəˈvɪnədi 1The state or quality of being divine. Example sentencesExamples - The spark of divinity stays within the Jew eternally as a consequence of God's covenant with His people Israel.
- Indeed, when we attain higher consciousness through spiritual disciplines, we actually see or perceive divinity all around.
- His life was for all, bringing everyone in his midst to purity, upliftment and divinity.
- Frankincense, which was burned in the shrines of numerous deities, represented divinity.
- And if they come from God, then it is a dark and awesome divinity, pulling us towards our fate, kicking and screaming.
- They're not philosophical concepts, beliefs or descriptions of an ultimate truth or divinity.
- I think it is time to spread the word about human divinity and the universality of the spiritual path.
- Human history, particularly the history of the twentieth century, renders faith in an innate human divinity difficult for many of us.
- Despite the involvement of Freeman, not enough is made of his blessed divinity.
- Much like Taoism, divinity is divided between male and female, the Lord and Lady.
- Imperialism was endowed with the halo of divinity.
- We have within us a soul or a spark of inner divinity that is absolutely real and uncompromised.
- Secondly, being raised up to heaven is again no proof of divinity or greatness.
- He begins to feel the same divinity in him and all others around him.
- She mounts a scholarly exposition of the widely held doctrines of Trinity, original sin, and divinity of Christ, relegating them to later accretions in history.
- Death - teach the Zoharic masters - is a diminishment of divinity.
- Saying that God assumes human form makes God small, diminishing both His unity and His divinity.
- They promise divinity (a popular claim of New Agers) but deny us access to God.
- In the battle between science and divinity, divinity came off second best.
- Then we have a history of divinity bestowed on idols, rivers and trees by men.
Synonyms divine nature, divineness, godliness, deity, godhead, holiness, sanctity, sanctitude, sacredness, blessedness - 1.1 A divine being; a god or goddess.
busts of various Roman divinities Example sentencesExamples - A disciple of Confucius once asked, ‘Master, how should we treat the spirits and divinities?’
- Agni, the fire God is an important Rig Vedic divinity.
- To be gripped by one great integrating, imperative concern or desire is like monotheism - worship of one divinity.
- We don't need a directive or a definable god to feel the presence of divinity.
- Traditionally, Nigerians believe that there are two types of divinities: the Supreme Being, and the subordinate deities.
- When meeting a scientist who also believes in divinity, the defiantly atheist New York Times science writer Natalie Angier starts popping mental veins.
- True, he was a confirmed atheist, who had no patience for divinity, prayers or rituals.
- The rivers are female divinities, food and life bestowing mothers.
- Mountains contain divinity or kami and are sources of necessary water.
- There is ongoing interdependence between the living, the living-dead (those remembered by name), spirits and divinities, and the Supreme Being.
- For the pagan, the alienation from divinity is so palpable and painful that it must be overcome at all costs, even if ethics are the price.
- The Vajrayana sect took this a step further and introduced female divinities to Buddhist worship akin to Hinduism.
- The pagan insisted that divinity was in trees and in all of nature.
- Of all the religious practices and beliefs concerned with feminine divinities it is Shaktism which gives the Goddess a place of supreme importance.
- In ancient China mountains were seen as divinities who had the power to send needed rain.
- To have your ultimate concern distributed in different directions is like polytheism - worship of many divinities.
- Then, if one understands Brahma to be the transcendent aspect of divinity, the perception of Sarasvati as immanent accords well with Her being His shakti.
- The idols that have originally been introduced to serve as devotional media had got elevated to the status of divinity.
- So that, actually, in India, Kali is the great divinity.
- They recognize a wide range of supernatural beings, including demons, ancestral spirits, and divinities such as the sun god Surya and the rice goddess Dewi Sri.
Synonyms deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being - 1.2the Divinity God.
Example sentencesExamples - Learn the right terms and the subtle differences in them, and you can explain the profound ways Hindus look at Divinity.
- When we use our limbs in accord with the sacred laws of nature, every action worships and praises the omniscient Divinity in all things.
- Each incarnation of Divinity may be a separate entity just as each human is a separate person.
- A seeker of true Divinity will attain salvation when he realizes the Truth, the all-pervasive Brahman.
- That which is Sacred is so because it truly represents Divinity.
- Everything that Divinity created is infused with its essence.
- It is by far not the only idea about Divinity's structure, yet it is one which I find to be particularly insightful.
- Not that we offer to give up our life, but that we offer to devote it entirely to Divinity.
- The dhami initiates must plunge beneath the surface of the waters and enter into a trance to attract Divinity.
- Water the soil with love and humility and reap the fruits of Divinity.
- Mary and Fred are not Humanity, but God is Divinity.
- I believe that there is one Divinity, nameless, who is both beyond nature and within nature, including man.
- This is almost identical to the last technique, but instead of a Holy Book saying it, some form of Divinity said it.
- We approach Spirit and Divinity with the noblest of intentions.
- What is perfectly clear is the speech of the indescribable Divinity.
- The Divinity is best manifest as human consciousness.
- Quite the contrary - Divinity creates within itself a sacred void in the form of a circle.
- As a Neo-Pagan who believes in the immanent nature of Divinity, I am a great believer that all of the Earth is sacred.
- It describes worship of Divinity through devotion to the physical yoni.
- After all, one of the key tenets of Paganism is that Divinity is immanent; it is around us and within us.
2The study of religion; theology. Example sentencesExamples - Seminaries, schools of theology, divinity schools, and churches must face the pressing and rising presence of diversity.
- In its 44 years the Union has had as prime ministers three generals, one doctor of divinity and now a ‘mister’.
- Unlike his predecessors and most Lutheran clergy, Hanson earned his first divinity degree at a non-Lutheran institution, Union Theological Seminary in New York.
- Having been an ordained pastor with a doctorate in divinity and a masters degree in biblical studies, he knew what had taken place.
- He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1960 and earned a bachelor of divinity in 1965 and a master of theology in 1966 from King's College in London.
- It was simply pigeon-holed by these doctors of divinity.
- In 1984 he moved to Canada, where he did a masters in divinity and licentiate in moral theology at the University of Toronto.
- When I give a fellow an honorary doctor of divinity, it's just a little piece of paper.
- He later earned a master of divinity from St. Paul School of Theology in 1974.
- But in 1973, Case's career took a sharp turn when he decided to study divinity at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.
- In several universities, divinity schools were among the most vibrant sources of ideas and sustained engagement.
- Ukrainian Orthodox clergy are educated in divinity schools such as the Kyiv Theological Academy.
- He revolted from the Roman Church and by 1613-14 was again a Protestant, later becoming a doctor of divinity at Cambridge and chaplain to the king.
- John Rogers, the first martyr, was a lecturer in divinity at St Paul's Cathedral, London.
- This school was the first of the ‘literary and theological institutions,’ a mixture of liberal arts and divinity objectives.
- Barrow had taken an oath to study divinity when he was admitted as a fellow, and, after briefly studying medicine, he began studying divinity again.
- His love affair with The Stand began in 2000 when the comic came to Edinburgh to study divinity.
- He received his master of divinity degree from Moravian Theological Seminary in 1988 and was ordained that same year.
- Going on to study divinity at the University of St Andrews, Playfair undertook his theological studies at St Mary's College, St Andrews.
- Queasiness at the sight of blood curtailed a medical career, and Darwin went to Cambridge to study divinity and join the church.
Synonyms theology, religious studies, religion, scripture
Origin Middle English: from Old French divinite, from Latin divinitas, from divinus ‘belonging to a deity’ (see divine). |