单词 | divineness |
释义 | divinenessn. 1. The quality or state of being divine; divine nature, character, or origin; divinity, sacredness. 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 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 110 The common nature of man, that hath in it both diuinenes, and somtime beastly brutishnes. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 589 I haue..prooued the trewnesse and diuinenesse of the Scriptures. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions i. 2 Their admirable Motions and Order, in which the Heathen have acknowledged a Divineness. 1718 Free-thinker No. 54. 2 The real Excellence, and Divineness of Vertue. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xii. 271 In all true Work..there is something of divineness. 2. Superhuman or supreme excellence. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun] pricea1275 sovereigntyc1340 primacyc1384 sublimityc1429 vassalagec1430 precellence?a1439 pre-excellencec1450 pre-eminencec1460 superexcellencec1475 chief1519 pre-eminency1523 greaterness1540 precellency1557 superexcellency?1563 divinenessa1586 superancya1586 sublimenessa1599 pre-excellency1603 especialness1614 transcendencea1616 transcendency1615 transcendentness1625 top1627 antecellency1657 quality1665 transcendingness1730 transcendentalism1841 surpassingness1879 transcendentality1881 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvii. sig. Zz2 Besought him to repeate it againe, that..his mind might be the better acquainted with the diuinenesse therof. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. vi. 43 Behold Diuinenesse No elder then a Boy. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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