superdivine

English

Alternative forms

• super-divine

Etymology

super- +‎ divine

Adjective

superdivine (comparative more superdivine, superlative most superdivine)

1. (rare) Exceptionally divine.
   • 1893, Theosophical Review - Volume 12, page 461:

     Triad above all substance, super-divine and above the good, guide of the Christians into the Divine Wisdom, conducting us to that above agnosy, i.e., the unknowable, to the highest clearness and the super-eminent height.

2. (rare) Beyond simply divine; greater than or transcending what is typically divine.
   • 1900 January 4, Swami Vivekananda, “Work and Its Secret”, in ramakrishnavivekananda.info‎^[1]:

     Superhuman power is not strong enough. Superdivine strength is the only way, the one way out. By it alone we can pass through all these intricacies, through these showers of miseries, unscathed. We may be cut to pieces, torn asunder, yet our hearts must grow nobler and nobler all the time.

   • 2012, By Nicholas F. Gier, Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives‎^[2], State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     Zimmer observes that Titans are not only superhuman, but they, as we have just seen, are superdivine; and as such, they are involved in a supergodly task. Even the gods accrue karma, so the human savior will also become the redeemer of the gods.

   • 2014, Jon D. Mikalson, Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy‎^[3], University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     This difference between popular and tragic religion arises in part because poets are more inclined to attribute evil to their gods, but also because poets, when they assumed their "superdivine" narrative posture, are in a better position than ordinary people to proffer detailed explanations of individual deaths.