Divine has reference to the ancient soothsayers' arts (as in Gen. xliv, 5, 15), and refers rather to reading hearts than to reading the future. We say I could not divine his motive, or his intention.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

glorious The heroes were congratulated with a glorious song.
heavenly I love God, the Heavenly Father, who created me.
celestial Astronomers use Latin for naming celestial objects.
angelic Saida Muhametzianova sings with her angelic voice.
holy The Holy Inquisition started with Pope Lucius III.
sacred The national sovereignty is sacred and inviolable.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
divine		rising
glorious		rising
heavenly		rising
celestial		steady
angelic		rising
holy		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: god¹
4 letters: holy², dope¹, gurt
5 letters: think¹, great¹, guess¹, saved¹, fancy², elect², deity³, godly², dandy², augur²
6 letters: lovely², priest¹, sacred², pastor², cleric², fathom², parson², deific
7 letters: believe², awesome², supreme², suppose², suspect², blessed¹, predict², foresee², angelic³, surmise², elysian, presage², goddish
8 letters: minister³, inspired³, ultimate³, stunning², glorious³, heavenly³, splendid², blissful², hallowed², prophesy, foretell², beatific, seraphic, forebode²
9 letters: beautiful³, wonderful³, religious³, fantastic³, excellent³, spiritual⁴, exquisite³, celestial³, clergyman³, churchman²
10 letters: delightful³, conjecture³, superhuman⁴, theologian⁵, sacrosanct³, portentous³, vaticinate
11 letters: magnificent⁴
12 letters: supernatural⁵, transcendent³, ecclesiastic⁵, providential⁴
13 letters: extraordinary⁶, prognosticate⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (holy² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: divin
Italiano: divino
Español: divino
Deutsch: göttlich
Català: diví