divine messenger
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“Ah! ‘Monstrum is a divine messenger of catastrophe.’
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2019
As a film, it was a shambolic melodrama that seemed to treat Ramdev almost as a divine messenger.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2017
"The Bastard Executioner" stars Lee Jones as Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior who is compelled by a divine messenger to lay down his weapons and lead the life of a journeyman executioner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
As the messenger of the gods was speaking thus, the sage told him, 'O divine messenger, I desire that thou mayst describe unto me the attributes of those that reside there.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
