divine messenger
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- noun
- Literature
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mensajero divino
- In many cultures, the divine messenger is believed to bring important revelations from God.
- role as the divine messenger
Examples
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And since we are divine messengers, we will know how to use it!
Fiction book (1990) -
Is the messiah a "divine messenger" to "save" the world?
Blog text (26) -
I tell him we are divine messengers of Sun Wu-Kung.
Fiction book (1990) -
As noted earlier, the divine messenger Es-Elgba is the keeper of se, mediating its positive and negative powers.
Academic text (2008) -
He was visited by a divine messenger again, the Angel Gabriel in Arabic gibreel, delivering to him the words of Allah, the one God of Abraham.
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The ancient texts describe how the divine messenger delivered crucial messages to the prophets.
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Throughout history, people have documented encounters with a divine messenger, claiming it transformed their lives.
Synonyms
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A person who says they receive messages from God and tells others
How Divine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a being who serves as a messenger from a deity' is directly derivable from combining 'divine' (of or from a deity) with 'messenger' (one who carries messages). This straightforward adjective+noun composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase divine messenger comes from the image of a glowing being sent by a god to bring important news. Because divine means 'from a god' and messenger is someone who brings a message, the phrase now means 'a being who brings a message from a god'.