divinity school

noun

: a professional school having a religious curriculum especially for ministerial candidates

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The play leaves the mundane world to engage in spiritual questions between an old-school father (Harry Lennix) and his independent-minded youngest son, Nazareth (Jon Michael Hill), who left divinity school to become a nature photographer. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025 David was one of three Black students — his fellow law school classmate, the late Walter Johnson of Greensboro, N.C., and a graduate divinity school student, the late R.L. Speaks — to integrate the North Carolina university in 1961. Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025 Dennis Hubert, a sophomore divinity school student, received the posthumous degree from Morehouse College, a historically Black college in Atlanta, on Sunday, May 18, CNN and FOX affiliate WAGA reported. Sam Gillette, People.com, 27 May 2025 Junior is a disgraced politician with possible mental health issues and Nazareth dropped out of divinity school to photograph lakes. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for divinity school

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1555, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of divinity school was circa 1555

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“Divinity school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divinity%20school. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.

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