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Divinely

Divinely \Di*vine"ly\, adv.

  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.

    Most divinely fair.
    --Tennyson.

  2. By the agency or influence of God.

    Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
divinely

1580s, from divine (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
divinely

adv. In a divine manner.

WordNet
divinely

adv. by divine means; "the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal existence"

Usage examples of "divinely".

But he danced the Cracovienne divinely, and ended up by breaking his leg.

And that same crazy witch of a Memory, so divinely wise and foolish, travels thirty-five hundred miles or so in a single pulse-beat, makes straight for an old house and an old library and an old corner of it, and whisks out a volume of an old cyclopaedia, and there is the picture of which this is the original.

Adams thought that at last he was experiencing the divinely sent madness which foreruns destruction.

Her afflatus, divinely sweet, divinely powerful, is breathed on every human heart, and inspires every soul to some nobler sentiment, some higher thought, some greater action.

None of his names, among the Orientals, were the symbols of a divinely infinite love and tenderness, and all-embracing mercy.

And she brought the charm forth and placed it in the fragrant band which engirdled her, just beneath her bosom, divinely fair.

Newton believed that the divinely imposed laws of nature changed from place to place and from time to time throughout the universe, as if God were experimenting with his creation in different ways at different times and places.

It was ten minutes later that he realized that the Koran was almost a word-for-word clone of what all the Jewish prophets had scribbled down, divinely inspired to do so, of course, because they said so.

He cooks divinely, but he has the temper of a fiend or an anthropoid ape, and I am really in bodily fear of him.

A Particular Faith, a carryover from the early days of Puritanism, was a divinely inspired intimation sent to men by God's angels to show them the Way.

The abbot had had this divinely revealed to him in a dream, and going into the church to verify the vision he saw the print of the Divine Foot, and gave thanks to the Lord.

Shee fair, divinely fair, fit Love for Gods, Not terrible, though terrour be in Love And beautie, not approacht by stronger hate, Hate stronger, under shew of Love well feign'd, The way which to her ruin now I tend.

Peter wanted to stay with his wife, who had chosen a divinely bad time to arrive back home.

Her limbs were long and most divinely molded, and of a strength that caused admiration and amazement in all beholders.

The beauty, the power, the persuasive sense of motion in the figure of the Madonna, which seemed divinely upborne,--the loveliness of the infant cherubs, the group of the Apostles solemnly attesting the mysterious event,--were singularly and inimitably impressive, full of aspiration and faith, compelling the serious recognition of the sacredness and greatness of the Christian mystery.