All 6 Uses of
divine
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "I divined then, Sonia," he went on eagerly, "that power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up.†
Chpt 5.4 *divined = discovered
- You are nervously irritable, Rodion Romanovitch, by temperament; it's out of proportion with other qualities of your heart and character, which I flatter myself I have to some extent divined.†
Chpt 6.2
- He's probably a divinity student.†
Chpt 6.4 *divinity = the state of being god-like; or of being a god
- But I can't know the Divine Providence....And why do you ask what can't be answered?†
Chpt 5.4
- "Oh, if the Divine Providence is to be mixed up in it, there is no doing anything," Raskolnikov grumbled morosely.†
Chpt 5.4
- But everything is divine in you....About your brother, what am I to say to you?†
Chpt 6.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(2)
(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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(3)
(divine as in: divined through intuition) to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the time of Shakespeare, divine was sometimes used as a noun to reference a priest or a person of the church. (To remember that sense, think of the clergyman as having come from God).
Divinity typically refers to a god or to a school of religion, but on rare occasions, it refers to the name of a kind of soft white candy. To remember that sense, you might think of it as tasting divine/wonderful.