Definition of divinity

"divinity" in the noun sense

1. deity, divinity, god, immortal

any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

2. divinity

the quality of being divine

"ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs"

3. divinity, divinity fudge

white creamy fudge made with egg whites

4. theology, divinity

the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth

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Quotations for divinity

There is a divinity in music. [ E. Erskine ]

There is a divinity within our breast. [ Ovid ]

A good conscience is the best divinity. [ Proverb ]

There's a Divinity that shapes our ends.
Rough-hew them as we will. [ William Shakespeare ]

'T is the Divinity that stirs within us. [ Addison ]

Divinity hath oftentimes descended
Upon our slumbers, and the blessed troupes
Have, in the calm and quiet of the soule,
Conversed with us. [ Shirley ]

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man. [ Addison ]

Fortune is a divinity in whom there are no disbelievers. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. [ William Shakespeare ]

Take care that the divinity within you has a creditable charge to preside over. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The science of Nature initiates the human mind into the secret thoughts of Divinity. [ Mme. d'Agoult ]

The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]

There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in governments while men govern. [ Sir Dudley Carlton ]

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. [ B. R. Haydon ]

If thou kiss Wisdom's cheek and make her thine, she will breathe into thy lips divinity, and thou, like Phoebus, shalt speak oracle. [ Decker ]

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are ground of the Divinity. [ Bailey ]

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]

No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness. [ Carlyle ]

What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth. [ Sydney Smith ]

Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds. [ Calderon ]

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity. [ Addison ]

Doubtless botany has its value; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them; they are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we begin to dissect and botanize them. [ H. N. Hudson ]

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]

divinity in Scrabble®

The word divinity is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters divinity:

DIVINITY
(144)
DIVINITY
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word divinity

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In divinity

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divinity in Words With Friends™

The word divinity is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters divinity:

DIVINITY
(120)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word divinity

DIVINITY
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DIVINITY
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DIVINITY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In divinity

DIVINITY
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Words within the letters of divinity

2 letter words in divinity (3 words)

3 letter words in divinity (5 words)

4 letter words in divinity (3 words)

8 letter words in divinity (1 word)

divinity + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence divinity

Words that start with divinity (3 words)

Words with divinity in them (1 word)

Words that end with divinity (1 word)

Word Growth involving divinity

Shorter words in divinity

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Longer words containing divinity

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