divineness

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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

He derided "the mania of owning things," he scorned distinctions of caste and class, he sang the divineness of comradeship—and, what is more, he practised it.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

In all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

You must love the uninspired poems for the sake of the divineness of the inspired poems.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von

All-- To wait on your divineness, With wine of every fineness, That's why we here are standing, All at your dread commanding.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William