divest
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This belief was revived during the Renaissance, leading Milton to exclaim, in his poem “Il Penseroso”: “Hail divinest Melancholy/Whose saintly visage is too bright/To hit the sense of human sight.”
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010
But she let her soul go down now to the divinest humiliation.
From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.
He was the divinest and sweetest impersonation of unostentatious unselfishness and of transparent honesty and integrity that I ever knew among men.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
“For when I drank of that divinest anguish, How could I taste the empty world again?”
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
God's divinest burneth plain Through the crystal diaphane Of our loves that love you.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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