divineness

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And he then adds: “By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not, An earthly paragon! behold divineness No elder than a boy.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Welcome, then, be the approach of death which shall cleanse and dislimit me into unimprisonable divineness of being, the crystalline sphere of pure intelligence and immortality!

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

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)

Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make, Of all that strong divineness which I know For thine and thee, an image only so Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

He unfortunately still clung to an ancient belief, which as yet remained unquestioned; i.e. the great virtue, one might almost say, the divineness, of circular motion.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius