divine

In a sentence

Six example sentences with divine, each labelled with its topic.

• Cotton Mather, the Boston divine, wrote hundreds of pamphlets and kept a diary that historians still mine for daily detail.

  History

• A country divine appears in chapter three, preaching badly, dining well, and borrowing money from half the parish.

  Literature

• The argument was published by a Cambridge divine who had trained for the pulpit long before turning to logic.

  Philosophy

• Isaac Watts, an English divine, wrote hundreds of hymns that congregations still sing three centuries later.

  Music

• The portrait shows a stern divine in a black gown, one hand resting on a Bible bound in brass.

  Art

• A Puritan divine sat in the assembly and argued that the new colony's laws should follow scripture closely.

  Politics

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