divineness

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Heaven, as a private experience, is the harmonized intercourse of the soul with the divineness in its surrounding conditions.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Then he endeavoured through grace to rouse and work up himself to such a divineness of frame, as very much suited the spiritual state and majesty of that ordinance.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John

BUT Pierre, though, charged with the fire of all divineness, his containing thing was made of clay.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Work is of a religious nature; all true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

With our Sciences and Cyclopædias, we are apt to forget the divineness, in these laboratories of ours.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas