divine inspiration

collocation in English

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divine
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvaɪn/us
/dɪˈvaɪn/
connected with a god, or like ...
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inspiration
noun
uk
/ˌɪn.spɪˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.spəˈreɪ.ʃən/
someone or something that gives you ideas for ...
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(Definition ofdivineandinspirationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have directdivineinspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
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He prefaced these mystical commentaries with the remark that he had not consulted any other work while writing them, and instead relied entirely ondivineinspiration(fath).
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Divineinspirationof this latter-day sort, therefore, can only urge people to compose: the will (and presumably the skill) to do so must be theirs.
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Brown himself certainly believed that he was acting under directdivineinspirationwhen he took up arms against slavery.
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I think a fair number of the people he mentions would have claimeddivineinspiration.
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How will he suddenly get thisdivineinspirationthat something is wrong in a scheme which he approved two years ago?
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It seems to be considered that there is somedivineinspirationthat teaches you the skills of caring for another human being.
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I accept that that is unlikely to be achieved without international inspiration—one could say, withoutdivineinspiration.
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Then, suddenly, it came to me like a flash ofdivineinspiration.
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It is as if there weredivineinspiration.
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There are however other ways of perception like: reason, intuition, revelation,divineinspiration, religious experience, mystical states, and historical testimony.
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Some say all the items in the will were written through "ruach hakodesh", ordivineinspiration.
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They dug unceasingly, clearly following directions fromdivineinspiration.
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They assert their belief that this name was given bydivineinspirationand should be retained.
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Irenaeus' opponents also claimed that the wellsprings ofdivineinspirationwere not dried up, which is the doctrine of continuing revelation.
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The angels, although created perfectly pure, require continual infusions ofdivineinspirationin order not to degenerate (4.26).
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He claimed that his transformation into a calligrapher was manifested bydivineinspiration.
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Various friends suggested that her knowledge was diabolical, not divine, but her confessor reassured her of thedivineinspirationof her thoughts.
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It was here thatdivineinspirationcame.
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