divinity
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In the ancient Near East, the image of God was used to legitimize power of the divinity of kings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Societies across the world valued gold as a symbol of divinity, immortality, and authority; its rarity made it a special privilege to behold and possess.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
After graduating from Knox in 1964, Brown received a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1968 and went to work in ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Erivo, a musical theater divinity, incarnated Elphaba from the inside out while delivering the power ballads with as much feeling as vocal majesty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
The great and noble effort to master the elements in order to achieve purity, perfection, and divinity.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Aang’s inherited mission, passed down to him by generations of previous divinities, is to restore and maintain the world’s elemental balance.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
We are, she writes, “creatures of matter who long to matter”—to ourselves, to each other and to people and divinities whose existence we take on trust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Among the Aztecs’ most revered divinities — and the beneficiary of human sacrifices — was Tláloc, the god of rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Here is a Dalit theyyam performer from the state, where these dancers in trance are thought to embody the very divinities they venerate.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
Leucothea and her son Palaemon, once mortals, became divinities of the sea, as did also Glaucus, but all three were unimportant.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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