divineness

Example Sentences

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Now he sees, that with every accession of the personal divine to him, some great land-slide of the general surrounding divineness slips from him, and falls crashing away.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

There was divineness in her youthful grace; she put her heart into the dance.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

And so in our time theologians prefer to rest it on foundations that cannot be shaken, on his moral oneness with God, the divineness of his spirit, the ideal perfectness of his life.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris

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

The Orphic hymns proclaim the high doctrine of the divineness of all life, and open, at least for the hopes of men, the gates of immortality.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John