divine being
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Now the mathematician turns for the first time to the definition of a divine being: x is divine if it possesses all positive properties φ.
From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2022
Week 1450, how space aliens or future scientists would interpret our society: Records are fragmentary, but it appears there was once a divine being who walked the earth, performed miracles and was called Chuck Norris.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022
In the case of Buddhism, the provocation was twofold: Early Buddhists did not regard the Buddha as a divine being but a great teacher.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
The beginning of orthodoxy was in the second and third centuries, when a group of theologians argued that there were three personas or states of the divine being, referred to as the Holy Trinity.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful, because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking out on to the incarnation of a divine being.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
