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  • noun Plural form of divinity.

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Examples

  • I had an economics course with a fool named “Steamboat” Fulton, whose stock and trade was lyrical rant about the twin divinities named Supply and Demand.

    Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009

  • The Dorian worship of Apollo ..., always opposed to the sad Christian divinities, is the aspiring element, by force and spring of which Greek religion sublimes itself ....

    The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972

  • For earth and so on are denoted by the distinctive term 'divinities'; so e.g. 'Let me enter into those three divinities' (Ch.Up. VI, 3, 2), where fire, water, and earth are called divinities; and Kau.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • As to men wrestling against divinities, that is a received idea.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Classical greek culture is responsible for the disembodiment of pagan divinities : what the Archaic Greeks would have called divinities, became with Plato : "ideas", "forms" and "archetypes".

    Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Classical greek culture is responsible for the disembodiment of pagan divinities : what the Archaic Greeks would have called divinities, became with Plato : "ideas", "forms" and "archetypes".

    Plato and Jung Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • "The divinities are the beckoning messengers of the godhead."

    Interface Issue #5 by Benjamin Henry 1993

  • The so - called divinities of Olympus have not a single worshipper among living men.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • The so - called divinities of Olympus have not a single worshipper among living men.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • That young hair brained fellow has sent us a brace of petticoats aboard; and these the profane reprobate calls his divinities!

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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