英和和英

形容詞

divinish (comparative more divinish, superlative most divinish)

1. Somewhat or nearly divine.
   • 1923, Life - Volume 81:

     That divinity itself is but divinish Is a proof that it is perfectly divine — And the power that made the universe Einsteinish Must be (relatively) something pretty fine!

   • 1963, David Rogers, It Happens Every Summer, page 16:

     I'm so sorry I'm late but the second plane was late and I missed the first plane 'cause I was snarfing around in this divinish little perfume boite at the airport.

   • 1967, Kanwar Lal, The Cult of Desire, page 51:

     […] when we observe that the sculptures occupy a certain place, are on the outside of the temple, and in the subsidiary components of the structure, but never in the garbh-grih, the cella, where the deity's image is set; or that, upon the wall, sexual activity of the bestial and orgiastic type is placed as friezes near the base, or that as tiers rise upon tiers of sculpture, the erotic becomes less earthy and more and more mystical, and divinish, if not divine, we are already walking upon good philosophic ground.

   • 2005, Anthropology and Humanism - Volumes 30-31, page 239:

     This book's concertedly wacky juxtapositions upset even easy distinctions between supposedly anonymous forces and reputedly individual protagonists (whether divinish kings, lionized generals, salvific missionaries, cherished martyrs ...