Divine vs. Sanctity — What's the Difference?

Having the nature of or being a deity.

Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness.

Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity

The quality or condition of being considered sacred; inviolability.

Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.

Something considered sacred.

Superhuman; godlike.

(uncountable) Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness

Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent

(uncountable) The condition of being considered sacred; inviolability

Extremely pleasant; delightful

(countable) Something considered sacred.

A cleric.

The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.

A theologian.

Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.

To foretell, especially by divination.

A saint or holy being.

To guess or know by inspiration or intuition

The quality of being holy

To locate (underground water or minerals) with a divining rod; douse.

To practice divination.

To guess.

Of or pertaining to a god.

Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

Beautiful, heavenly.

(obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.

Immortal; elect or saved after death

Relating to divinity or theology.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

(often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

(transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

(transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

(transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

To render divine; to deify.

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.

Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.

Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind.

Presageful; foreboding; prescient.

Relating to divinity or theology.

One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

To foretell; to predict; to presage.

To render divine; to deify.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding.

To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

A clergyman or other person in religious orders

Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers

Search by divining, as if with a rod;

Emanating from God;

Resulting from divine providence;

Being or having the nature of a god;

Devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity;

Appropriate to or befitting a god;

Of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration;