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divine right

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divine right noun
divine right
noun
Learner's definition of DIVINE RIGHT
[singular]
1 
: the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country（人们认为的）神授王权
2 
informal : the right to do or have something without having to ask permission应有的权利；天赋的权利

divine right

noun

: the right of a sovereign to rule as set forth by the theory of government that holds that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God and not from the people

Example Sentences

He ruled by divine right. My boss seems to think he has a divine right to order people around.
Recent Examples on the Web His belief in the divine right of himself generated a civil war. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 The reason for that, Field suggests, is that there’s something about the exalted nature of this music that leads the people who live everyday within its heady majesty to feel as if pleasure, in every realm, is their divine right. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022 Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021 Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021 Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021 Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021 Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021 Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1600, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of divine right was circa 1600

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