Definitions for divine right
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1. divine right, divine right of kingsnoun

   the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes

   "the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century"

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1. divine rightnoun

   The Christian doctrine that monarchs have a God-given right to rule, that they are answerable only to God, and that rebellion is sinful.

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1. divine right

   Divine right is a political and religious doctrine that asserts a monarch or any form of government gains their authority directly from God or a supernatural power, rather than through the consent of the people. The concept implies that any attempt to overthrow the king, resist his will, or question his authority, is challenging God's divine plan and is hence a sin. This has been used historically to legitimize the authority and actions of monarchs and other rulers.

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1. Divine Right

   Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created, written, and drawn by Jim Lee and published by Wildstorm from 1997 to 1999. Its protagonist is Max Faraday, a computer science student who inadvertently becomes the receptacle of an incredible mystic power.

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1. Divine Right

   a claim on the part of kings, now all but extinct, though matter of keen debate at one time, that they derive their authority to rule direct from the Almighty, and are responsible to no inferior power, a right claimed especially on the part of and in behalf of the Bourbons in France and the Stuart dynasty in England, and the denial of which was regarded by them and their partisans as an outrage against the ordinance of very Heaven.

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How to pronounce divine right?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of divine right in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of divine right in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of divine right in a Sentence

1. Corine Fairbanks:

   The pope stating that this person is someone saintly, or someone to be looked up to, or even revered or prayed to is giving the international message that what happened (to indigenous people), was by divine right, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people were killed all in the name of Catholicism and progress, so to speak.

2. W. E. B. Du Bois:

   It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

3. Herbert Spencer:

   Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

4. Sam James Ervin, Jr.:

   Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great

5. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari:

   The bigger tribes ... feel they have the divine right to rule others, then one man from a tiny community in Ijaw comes. He's not Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa. They can't bear it.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=divine right
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Divine_Right
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=divine right
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#DivineRight