How to Use divinity in a Sentence
divinity
noun- Christians believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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Poke at the divinity, and see the human beings on the inside.
— Selome Hailu, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022 -
The title comes from the nickname for the child who locals seem to think might be some sort of divinity in human form.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022 -
He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity.
— SI.com, 13 May 2018 -
The drinks were designed to wish good fortune, divinity and health.
— Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018 -
Though his life was spared, the philosopher who questioned the divinity of the moon found himself in exile in Lampsacus at the edge of the Hellespont.
— David Warmflash, Smithsonian, 8 Oct. 2014 -
For best results, make your divinity on a dry, cool day.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023 -
With or without a divinity, the emotions are the most human of all, the effects touching.
— Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021 -
For all Madame Gallard’s talk of God, there is no room for divinity amid such clutter.
— Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021 -
When a goddess finally shows up, the presence of divinity blazes off the page.
— Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 19 June 2024 -
Perhaps the end of something is the beginning of a new pursuit of divinity.
— Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024 -
God does, and Jesus dies on the cross, confirming his divinity as God's son.
— Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 7 June 2018 -
There’s not a single divinity, though the temple is topped by a statue of the Angel Moroni.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 -
The divinity which is the science of painting transmutes the painter’s mind into a resemblance of the divine mind.
— Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019 -
Then her husband died, and Fowler decided, at age 60, to go to divinity school.
— Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 29 July 2017 -
Genitals shackling, black over black in the temple of take, the supine divinity.
— Francine J. Harris, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020 -
Yet a handful of the astronauts did report feelings of divinity while on the moon.
— Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 16 July 2019 -
Hazzikostas spent endless evenings getting blown to bits by this grim divinity, and his guild had little progress to show for it.
— Luke Winkie, Wired, 27 Feb. 2021 -
This is hard news for the lame brains who think science is a divinity or an ideology.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020 -
These are the schools of divinity, law, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry.
— Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018 -
Samuel Mock, a 27-year-old divinity master's student, moved from Lexington to the Cincinnati area to be closer to the school.
— James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019 -
The finger of divinity touching your forehead may grant you an idea.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023 -
To Barbara Jenkins Bull, now Kraus, thank you for sharing your divinity with me.
— Time Staff, Time, 25 Apr. 2018 -
Features works from the 10th to the 19th centuries that exemplify the worship of divinities called kami.
— Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 28 June 2019 -
Between the manger and the cross there were a myriad of moments when the weight of divinity in the face of humanity may have felt like a hopeless thing to carry.
— Essence, 22 Dec. 2020 -
The mattress sale’s fleeting nature is, arguably, the source of its divinity.
— Mary Gulino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022 -
The master’s of divinity program is expanding rapidly, but the specifics of the future aren’t set in numbers, Bates said.
— Marialuisa Rincon, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018 -
Young, a handsome, clean-shaven 21-year-old divinity student, took a room at the Tremont House on Main Street and spent the next few days familiarizing himself with the town.
— BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021 -
At least according to some surveys, a surprisingly large number of evangelicals appear unsure about the divinity of Christ, which of course is a creedal requirement for being Christian.
— Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024 -
Born in 1959 in Milwaukee, Daniels received multiple doctorates in divinity before opening his church.
— Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2024
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