divine purpose

collocation in English

meaningsofdivineandpurpose

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divine
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvaɪn/us
/dɪˈvaɪn/
connected with a god, or like ...
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purpose
noun
uk
/ˈpɜː.pəs/us
/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofdivineandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdivine purpose

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All honest work, however common, is filled withdivinepurpose.
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Ostensibly gratuitous evil is adequate to accomplish thedivinepurposeand so genuinely gratuitous evil remains a problem (53-63).
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Birds and their songs are used as soloists, as decoration, as malleable musical material, as dramatic protagonists and as symbols ofdivinepurpose.
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She would need to explain, that is, why if predation serves nodivinepurposeit seems so frequent.
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Many of us believe that there is still adivinepurposeguiding the destinies of that sacred land.
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They must be regarded as in themselves right, as having, to use the common phrase, in themselves absolute values, because they represent adivinepurposefor this world.
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But that is a million light years away from the matter of the human spirit and thedivinepurposeand being which are central to the matter tonight.
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It saw thedivinepurposeof redemption not in individual terms only but also in corporate, social and political terms.
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Without history, there can be no teleology (showing adivinepurposeplaying itself out in the world).
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Miracles are at variance with thedivinepurpose; without miracles there could be no revelation.
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Over-emphasizing extrinsic finality is often criticized as leading to the anthropic attribution of every event to adivinepurpose, or superstition.
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Further, the world should be constructed so as to fulfil divine purposes.
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Some describe expressions of hopes, revelations of divine purposes, and prophecies of the future.
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For divine purposes, male and female spirits are different, distinctive, and complementary.
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