divinityn.

/dɪˈvɪnɪti/

Forms: Middle English–1500s devinite, dyvinite, divinite, Middle English–1600s divinitie.

Etymology: Middle English de- , divinite , < Old French devinité, -eté, -iteit (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) theology, < Latin dīvīnitāt-em godhead, divination, excellence, < dīvīnus divine adj.: see -ity suffix.

1. The character or quality of being divine; divineness, godhood; divine nature; Deity, Godhead.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > state of being or divinity

godhoodeOE

godcundnessOE

drightnessc1175

godcundlaikc1175

Godnessa1225

godhead?c1225

godcundec1275

godcundheada1300

deityc1374

divinityc1374

divine1393

divineness1579

divinesse1594

divination1603

deism1726

superhumanity1792

superhuman1824

suprahumanitya1834

numinousness1932

numinosity1936

ground1945

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. iv. 7 Thow desputedest..towching deuynyte and mankynde.

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 272 In crist warre flesshe and sawle and verray divinitee.

1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iii. sig. Y The humanitie of Christ after it was assumpted by the Diuinitie, was absorpte of the same.

c1610–15 tr. St. Ambrose Life St. Agnes in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 147 Diuinitie dwelleth not in stones but in heauen.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1010 They feel Divinitie within them breeding wings.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 877 The veil is rent..That hides divinity from mortal eyes.

1884 J. Ruskin Pleasures of Eng. 17 (note) Arianism consists not in asserting the subjection of the Son to the Father, but in denying the subjected Divinity.

a. concrete. A divine being; a god, a deity. the Divinity n. the Deity, the Supreme Being, God.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun]

godeOE

deityc1374

higher powerc1384

princec1384

divinityc1386

governorc1400

powerc1425

numen1495

fear1535

heaven1554

godheada1586

godhood1586

landlorda1635

supreme1643

supercelestial1652

supernal1661

universality1681

father1820

unspeakable1843

Molimo1861

Mlimo1897

superperson1907

somebody up there1972

sky fairy1997

c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 316 Whil we seken thilke diuinitee That is yhid in heuene.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aiv^v/2 Cryst Iesus very god and man is..moost blessyd and Inestymable dyuynyte or deyte for all mankynde.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 10 Ther's a diuinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vii. 302 Its divinities were clothed with terror.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 76 It's last and only end is the Divinity himself.

1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iv. 31 Their national Divinity had been their king.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 80 Mercury..the swift messenger of the divinities.

b. figurative. An object of adoration, an adorable being.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > adored person

divinity1659

1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 51 A Lover..naming what he Worships, a Divinity.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. ix. 247 I perceived the divinity seated on a large sattin cushion,..in a genteel dishabille.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. vii. 69 Composing a most flaming and conceited copy of verses to his divinity.

3. Divine quality, virtue, or power; god-likeness, divineness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > divine quality or power

divinityc1528

numen1662

Godness1883

c1528 Everyman (1961) 727 These seuen..Gracyous sacramentes of hye deuynyte.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg5 The goodly Maide ful of diuinities, And gifts of heauenly grace.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. i. 3 There is Diuinity in odde Numbers, either in natiuity, chance, or death.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 607 These miraculous signs of the divinity of the Christian Doctrine.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 57 To lift the woman's fall'n divinity Upon an even pedestal with man.

a. The science of divine things; the science that deals with the nature and attributes of God, His relations with humankind, etc.; theology; the theological faculty in Universities. (The earliest sense in English.) divinity hall, (Scotland, etc.), a theological hall or college.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [noun]

divine1303

divinityc1305

theology1362

pantheology1656

c1305 Edmund Conf. 238 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 77 To diuinite as god wolde þis gode man him drouȝ.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 Of þe þre vertues of deuynyte [L. theologicarum virtutum].

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiii. 144 Athanasius was a gret Doctour of Dyvynytee.

1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 118 I woll that the maister of devenyte haue xx li.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 40 William Thurston abbot of Fowntens and bachelar of devinite..hongyd, heddyd and qwarterd.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 39 Heare him but reason in Diuinitie .

1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. viii. §112 They never dream'd of Monarchy being Jure Divino..till it was revealed to us in the Divinity of this last Age.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 342 The Ordinary of Newgate..talk'd a little in his way, but all his Divinity run upon Confessing my Crime, as he call'd it.

1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 14 Mar. Divinity is essentially the first of the professions, because it is necessary for all at all times.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 498 Three poor labouring men, deeply imbued with this unamiable divinity.

b. Applied also to the theological systems of heathen nations or philosophers.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > non-Christian

theology1662

divinity1669

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. 12 Plato acknowlegeth that he received the..choicest of his Divinitie from the Phenicians.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iv. 145 The Religion and Divinity of the Vulgar in the Days of Heathenism.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. vii. 164 He..was versed in all the divinity of the Greeks.

†5. = divination n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun]

divinec1330

diviningc1340

divinationc1374

divinailc1386

sortilegea1387

sortilegya1387

divinity1481

matesy1543

divinement1579

divinesse1594

predivination1603

observating1652

sortiary1653

fatidicency1693

fatiloquency1693

mantology1774

manticism1861

zoomancy1888

mantic1891

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiii. 39 By this Arte and science [Astronomye] were first emprysed..alle other sciences of decrees and of dyuinyte.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 28 This diuinitie or fore-telling of Anaxagoras.

Compounds

C1. attributive (esp. in reference to the Faculty of Divinity at the Universities), as divinity act, divinity book, divinity chair, divinity lecture, divinity man, divinity school, etc.

ΚΠ

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. (R.) A full library of all good diuinity-books.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1373/1 We..appointed you to appeare before vs yesterdaye in the diuinitie schole, a place for disputations.

1641 S. Marshall et al. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. (1653) v. 22 Such as were able to preach, or keepe a Divinitie Act.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 97 If a young Divinity-intender has but got a Sermon of his own, or of his Father's..he gets a Qualification.

c1680 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 79 The Tongues and Pens of the thriving Divinity-men.

1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 119 As acceptable and serviceable from the Pulpit as from a Divinity-Chair.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 6 Nov. The Divinity-Bedell's Staff.

1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 138 A register office for parsons, a kind of divinity-shop..for hiring of preachers.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. v. i. 463 Attendance on divinity lectures is requisite.

C2.

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divinity-calf n. Bookbinding dark brown stained calf decorated with blind stamping, without gilding: used for theological works; (Zaehnsdorf, Hist. Bookb. 1895).

divinity fudge n. U.S. a type of home-made fudge.

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1913 E. H. Glover ‘Dame Curtsey's’ Bk. Candy Making 34 Divinity Fudge. Three and one-half cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup of 90 per cent corn syrup, [etc.].

1970 New Yorker 5 Sept. 36/3 My mother stayed out of the kitchen as much as possible, except for making divinity fudge perhaps once a year.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	divinity
释义	divinityn. /dɪˈvɪnɪti/ Forms: Middle English–1500s devinite, dyvinite, divinite, Middle English–1600s divinitie. Etymology: Middle English de- , divinite , < Old French devinité, -eté, -iteit (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) theology, < Latin dīvīnitāt-em godhead, divination, excellence, < dīvīnus divine adj.: see -ity suffix. 1. The character or quality of being divine; divineness, godhood; divine nature; Deity, Godhead. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > state of being or divinity godhoodeOE godcundnessOE drightnessc1175 godcundlaikc1175 Godnessa1225 godhead?c1225 godcundec1275 godcundheada1300 deityc1374 divinityc1374 divine1393 divineness1579 divinesse1594 divination1603 deism1726 superhumanity1792 superhuman1824 suprahumanitya1834 numinousness1932 numinosity1936 ground1945 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. iv. 7 Thow desputedest..towching deuynyte and mankynde. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 272 In crist warre flesshe and sawle and verray divinitee. 1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iii. sig. Y The humanitie of Christ after it was assumpted by the Diuinitie, was absorpte of the same. c1610–15 tr. St. Ambrose Life St. Agnes in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 147 Diuinitie dwelleth not in stones but in heauen. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1010 They feel Divinitie within them breeding wings. View more context for this quotation 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 877 The veil is rent..That hides divinity from mortal eyes. 1884 J. Ruskin Pleasures of Eng. 17 (note) Arianism consists not in asserting the subjection of the Son to the Father, but in denying the subjected Divinity. 2. a. concrete. A divine being; a god, a deity. the Divinity n. the Deity, the Supreme Being, God. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] godeOE deityc1374 higher powerc1384 princec1384 divinityc1386 governorc1400 powerc1425 numen1495 fear1535 heaven1554 godheada1586 godhood1586 landlorda1635 supreme1643 supercelestial1652 supernal1661 universality1681 father1820 unspeakable1843 Molimo1861 Mlimo1897 superperson1907 somebody up there1972 sky fairy1997 c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 316 Whil we seken thilke diuinitee That is yhid in heuene. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aiv^v/2 Cryst Iesus very god and man is..moost blessyd and Inestymable dyuynyte or deyte for all mankynde. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 10 Ther's a diuinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will. View more context for this quotation 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vii. 302 Its divinities were clothed with terror. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 76 It's last and only end is the Divinity himself. 1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iv. 31 Their national Divinity had been their king. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 80 Mercury..the swift messenger of the divinities. b. figurative. An object of adoration, an adorable being. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > adored person divinity1659 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 51 A Lover..naming what he Worships, a Divinity. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. ix. 247 I perceived the divinity seated on a large sattin cushion,..in a genteel dishabille. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. vii. 69 Composing a most flaming and conceited copy of verses to his divinity. 3. Divine quality, virtue, or power; god-likeness, divineness. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > divine quality or power divinityc1528 numen1662 Godness1883 c1528 Everyman (1961) 727 These seuen..Gracyous sacramentes of hye deuynyte. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg5 The goodly Maide ful of diuinities, And gifts of heauenly grace. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. i. 3 There is Diuinity in odde Numbers, either in natiuity, chance, or death. View more context for this quotation 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 607 These miraculous signs of the divinity of the Christian Doctrine. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 57 To lift the woman's fall'n divinity Upon an even pedestal with man. 4. a. The science of divine things; the science that deals with the nature and attributes of God, His relations with humankind, etc.; theology; the theological faculty in Universities. (The earliest sense in English.) divinity hall, (Scotland, etc.), a theological hall or college. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [noun] divine1303 divinityc1305 theology1362 pantheology1656 c1305 Edmund Conf. 238 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 77 To diuinite as god wolde þis gode man him drouȝ. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 Of þe þre vertues of deuynyte [L. theologicarum virtutum]. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiii. 144 Athanasius was a gret Doctour of Dyvynytee. 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 118 I woll that the maister of devenyte haue xx li. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 40 William Thurston abbot of Fowntens and bachelar of devinite..hongyd, heddyd and qwarterd. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 39 Heare him but reason in Diuinitie . View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. viii. §112 They never dream'd of Monarchy being Jure Divino..till it was revealed to us in the Divinity of this last Age. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 342 The Ordinary of Newgate..talk'd a little in his way, but all his Divinity run upon Confessing my Crime, as he call'd it. 1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 14 Mar. Divinity is essentially the first of the professions, because it is necessary for all at all times. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 498 Three poor labouring men, deeply imbued with this unamiable divinity. b. Applied also to the theological systems of heathen nations or philosophers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > non-Christian theology1662 divinity1669 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. 12 Plato acknowlegeth that he received the..choicest of his Divinitie from the Phenicians. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iv. 145 The Religion and Divinity of the Vulgar in the Days of Heathenism. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. vii. 164 He..was versed in all the divinity of the Greeks. †5. = divination n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] divinec1330 diviningc1340 divinationc1374 divinailc1386 sortilegea1387 sortilegya1387 divinity1481 matesy1543 divinement1579 divinesse1594 predivination1603 observating1652 sortiary1653 fatidicency1693 fatiloquency1693 mantology1774 manticism1861 zoomancy1888 mantic1891 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiii. 39 By this Arte and science [Astronomye] were first emprysed..alle other sciences of decrees and of dyuinyte. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 28 This diuinitie or fore-telling of Anaxagoras. Compounds C1. attributive (esp. in reference to the Faculty of Divinity at the Universities), as divinity act, divinity book, divinity chair, divinity lecture, divinity man, divinity school, etc. ΚΠ 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. (R.) A full library of all good diuinity-books. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1373/1 We..appointed you to appeare before vs yesterdaye in the diuinitie schole, a place for disputations. 1641 S. Marshall et al. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. (1653) v. 22 Such as were able to preach, or keepe a Divinitie Act. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 97 If a young Divinity-intender has but got a Sermon of his own, or of his Father's..he gets a Qualification. c1680 E. Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 79 The Tongues and Pens of the thriving Divinity-men. 1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 119 As acceptable and serviceable from the Pulpit as from a Divinity-Chair. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 6 Nov. The Divinity-Bedell's Staff. 1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 138 A register office for parsons, a kind of divinity-shop..for hiring of preachers. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. v. i. 463 Attendance on divinity lectures is requisite. C2. Categories » divinity-calf n. Bookbinding dark brown stained calf decorated with blind stamping, without gilding: used for theological works; (Zaehnsdorf, Hist. Bookb. 1895). divinity fudge n. U.S. a type of home-made fudge. ΚΠ 1913 E. H. Glover ‘Dame Curtsey's’ Bk. Candy Making 34 Divinity Fudge. Three and one-half cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup of 90 per cent corn syrup, [etc.]. 1970 New Yorker 5 Sept. 36/3 My mother stayed out of the kitchen as much as possible, except for making divinity fudge perhaps once a year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1305
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