Meanings of called divine in English

Such was the theory of what is called divine-right monarchy or absolutism.

All these effects of the Law cannot be called divine or heavenly.

A something that the ancients called divine can be found and felt there still.

This government of His is what is called divine providence.

These virtues are called divine because they have God for their Author or their object.

Power is harsh, and scarcely worthy to be called divine, unless it be linked with love.

Her white face by the side of the gnome represented what might have been called divine astonishment.

Beyond the moon everything seemed permanent; it was therefore called divine and declared to preside over the rest.

That is why poets, like painters, are called divine, because in that respect they resemble God the Creator.

A great gulf was fixed between what it was possible to find in the soul, and what Christianity called divine.

Vasari speaks with characteristic enthusiasm of the glyptics of the Greeks, "whose works in that manner may be called divine."

They had been taught to believe that to say a word against the king, to question his so- called divine right, was sinful.

For the divine essence is itself pure love; this love acts through divine wisdom and its activity is what is called divine providence.

However, granting that such a thing can be, the faith of him who takes and leaves off the divine Word is called divine faith.

The reach and catholicity of his imagination was what earned him that extravagant praise; but his syntax has no less title to be called divine.

Only that Love that seeks no personal gratification or reward, that does not make distinctions, and that leaves behind no heartaches, can be called divine.