The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divinity \Di*vin"i*ty\, n.; pl. Divinities. [F. divinit['e], L. divinitas. See Divine, a.]
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The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation.
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The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
This the divinity that within us.
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A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.
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A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
God . . . employing these subservient divinities.
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Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.
They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
--Shak.There's such divinity doth hedge a king.
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The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.
Divinity is essentially the first of the professions.
--Coleridge.Case divinity, casuistry.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of divinity English)
Usage examples of "divinities".
ROMAN divinities The preceding are Grecian divinities, though received also by the Romans.
Sylvanus and Faunus were Latin divinities, whose characteristics are so nearly the same as those of Pan that we may safely consider them as the same personage under different names.
The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed those phenomena which our philosophy ascribes to the operation of the laws of nature.
One of that numerous class of female divinities of lower rank than the gods, yet sharing many of their attributes.
The Greek and Latin poets and philosophers, as they made some very slight acquaintance with Egyptian worship, give Greek or Latin names to the divinities worshipped.
ORACLES Oracle was the name used to denote the place where answers were supposed to be given by any of the divinities to those who consulted them respecting the future.
His statues of divinities are not numerous: a Zeus at Argos, an Aphrodite at Amyclae, and, more famous than either, the chryselephantine Hera for a temple between Argos and Mycenae.
I will attempt to conjure common divinities, and show you the loveliness of filth.
He's evidently thought long and hard about the paradoxes of our state: a family of divinities (or in my case a semidivinity) hiding away from a world which no longer wants us or needs us.
Even divinities like Galilee give up the limitations of the flesh eventually, and unbounded swell into legend.
I, who sit in the middle of a house of divinities talking about invented gods.
He would be unmade, the way divinities were unmade, because divinities were without beginning and without end: a rare and wonderful condition.
A place where beasts and divinities could be dissolved, and get about the work of oneness.
And the idea that he, the child of poor villagers, was now sharing his humble skull space with a god —least of all any of the truly great divinities, like Apollo—was very hard to swallow.
The Trickster's memory gave reassurance on that point, as did the old stories, in which divinities frequently wedded one another and brought forth offspring.