divinity

In the ancient Near East, the image of God was used to legitimize power of the divinity of kings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Societies across the world valued gold as a symbol of divinity, immortality, and authority; its rarity made it a special privilege to behold and possess.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

After graduating from Knox in 1964, Brown received a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1968 and went to work in ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Those low, low prices on Hertz rentals, on the other hand — that’s divinity!

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

He spoke roughly to Dionysus, who answered him with entire gentleness, seeming to try to reach his real self and open his eyes to see that he was face to face with divinity.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Aang’s inherited mission, passed down to him by generations of previous divinities, is to restore and maintain the world’s elemental balance.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

We are, she writes, “creatures of matter who long to matter”—to ourselves, to each other and to people and divinities whose existence we take on trust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Among the Aztecs’ most revered divinities — and the beneficiary of human sacrifices — was Tláloc, the god of rain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Here is a Dalit theyyam performer from the state, where these dancers in trance are thought to embody the very divinities they venerate.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023

If so, they can be regarded as the ancestors of the animal divinities, and their half-human, half-animal cousins we shall meet throughout the Near East and Greece.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson