divineness

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I might speak to you in like manner of the divineness of manhood and of womanhood, and of the divineness of old age.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John

In all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

And he then adds: “By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon! behold divineness No elder than a boy.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

The tendency of outdoor exercise to purify and elevate our thoughts is so strong that Kingsley actually defended playing cricket on Sunday as "a carrying out of the divineness of the Sabbath."

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

And so in our time theologians prefer to rest it on foundations that cannot be shaken, on his moral oneness with God, the divineness of his spirit, the ideal perfectness of his life.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris