adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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CMU ARPABET:D IH0 V AY1 N L IY0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adv
Meaning 1
In a divine manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20, And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought, By envy sore distraught, Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers, Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,
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2
adverb
Meaning 2
by divine means
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal existence
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree English divine Middle English -ly English -ly English divinely From divine + -ly.
