divine plan

collocation in English

meaningsofdivineandplan

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divine
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvaɪn/us
/dɪˈvaɪn/
connected with a god, or like ...
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plan
noun
uk
/plæn/us
/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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(Definition ofdivineandplanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdivine plan

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Neither in history nor in natural science is this law to be considered as adivineplan.
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Its sensations were therefore an ideal vehicle for thedivineplanof human destiny.
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Just as thedivineplanmeant that no blame could be attached to a barren woman, so the gift of celibacy could provide similar exemption.
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Patriots, most of whom were believers, welcomed progress in legal rights as part of adivineplan.
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Can we really, by juggling with genes and in other ways, better thedivineplanof creation?
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This represents a sense of individuality and a separation from a general existence of anydivineplan.
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The nave is the expression of the romanesque man's admiring submission to thedivineplantestified to by all creation.
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For in thedivineplanboth senses may help toward our salvation.
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Each holds the view that there is a creator but that this creator has employed the natural force of evolution to unfold adivineplan.
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The seekers are also seen as traitors who act opposite of thedivineplan.
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Recall a world is theologically possible if its existence is compatible with divine plans.
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But a theistic understanding of evolution holds that there was a divine teleology in this process, a divine direction at each crucial stage in accordance withdivineplanor intention.
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Agassiz's perspective on science combined observation with intuition and the assumption that a person can grasp thedivineplanin all phenomena.
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