divinity school
noun
: a professional school having a religious curriculum especially for ministerial candidates
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Back then, Elling was based here, a Rockford native who started singing on the local circuit while in divinity school. 
Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022 The Radcliffe Institute and divinity school rely much more heavily on endowment income. BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021 Oppenheimer directs the Yale Journalism Initiative and has been a lecturer in Yale’s English department, political science department, and divinity school. Hartford Courant, 9 June 2022 His faith plays a major role in his life; Blanco is involved in his church and plans to attend divinity school. Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022 Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, together with its important divinity school, are set to begin next fall. Nina Shea, National Review, 20 Mar. 2022 His wife, Julia, serves as the deputy dean of the divinity school. David Bell, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021 Some suggested, erroneously, that Epstein had been tapped to head the divinity school, while the Daily Mail seemed to imply that Harvard had empowered Epstein to lead the entire university. Nick Paumgarte, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021 West, who had been a professor of the practice of public philosophy in the divinity school, announced plans to leave Harvard in March, according to The Boycott Times, which describes itself as a publication of dissent. NBC News, 14 July 2021 See More
Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022 The Radcliffe Institute and divinity school rely much more heavily on endowment income. BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021 Oppenheimer directs the Yale Journalism Initiative and has been a lecturer in Yale’s English department, political science department, and divinity school. Hartford Courant, 9 June 2022 His faith plays a major role in his life; Blanco is involved in his church and plans to attend divinity school. Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022 Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, together with its important divinity school, are set to begin next fall. Nina Shea, National Review, 20 Mar. 2022 His wife, Julia, serves as the deputy dean of the divinity school. David Bell, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021 Some suggested, erroneously, that Epstein had been tapped to head the divinity school, while the Daily Mail seemed to imply that Harvard had empowered Epstein to lead the entire university. Nick Paumgarte, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021 West, who had been a professor of the practice of public philosophy in the divinity school, announced plans to leave Harvard in March, according to The Boycott Times, which describes itself as a publication of dissent. NBC News, 14 July 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1555, in the meaning defined above