Definitions for diviners

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diviners di·vin·er

Spelling: [dih-vahy-ner]

IPA: /dɪˈvaɪ nər/

Diviners is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in diviners (deiinrsv).

Definitions for diviners

noun

1. a person who divines; soothsayer; prophet.
2. a person skilled in using a divining rod.
3. a theologian; scholar in religion.
4. a priest or member of the clergy.
5. the Divine. God. (sometimes lowercase) the spiritual aspect of humans; the group of attributes and qualities of humankind regarded as godly or godlike.

adjective

1. of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
2. addressed, appropriated, or devoted to God or a god; religious; sacred:
3. proceeding from God or a god:
4. godlike; characteristic of or befitting a deity:
5. heavenly; celestial:
6. extremely good; unusually lovely:
7. being a god; being God:
8. of superhuman or surpassing excellence:
9. Obsolete. of or relating to divinity or theology.

verb (used with object)

1. to discover or declare (something obscure or in the future) by divination; prophesy.
2. to discover (water, metal, etc.) by means of a divining rod.
3. to perceive by intuition or insight; conjecture:
4. Archaic. to portend.

verb (used without object)

1. to use or practice divination; prophesy.
2. to have perception by intuition or insight; conjecture.

Origin of diviners

1300-50; divine + -er¹; replacing Middle English divinour Anglo-French Late Latin dīvīnātor soothsayer, equivalent to Latin dīvīnā

Examples for diviners

The word Uma means head, and Uillac, a councillor and diviner.

They have found that their lives were diviner than they knew.

But let me not close this chapter, till I have struck another and a diviner note.

It appeared that Samdad had once acted as diviner on a similar occasion.

She grew to him like a second conscience, diviner than his own.

In renunciation we thus restore to self its own diviner mind.

But she would have been more than a diviner of mysteries to have understood its cause.

The philosopher asks the diviner to tell what is holy and what impiety.

I do claim some capacity in the diviner flights of lyric letters, friend.

And so he becomes the victim rather than the master of his own diviner life.