divine messenger
Example Sentences
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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
If the bird was worshipped, it was not as a totem, but as "the divine messenger of the spring," like "the plover among the Latins".***
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
