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.
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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
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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
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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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