jure divino

[ yoo-re di-wee-noh; English joor-ee di-vahy-noh, -vee- ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. by divine law.

Example Sentences

If I was out at sea in a boat with a jure divino monarch, and he wanted to throw me overboard, I would not let him.

From Project Gutenberg

Up to that time Defoe had written nothing but occasional literature, and, except the History of the Union and Jure Divino, nothing of any great length.

From Project Gutenberg

In a passage in The Jewel, he plainly declares his belief "that there is no government, whether ecclesiastical or civil, upon earth that is jure divino, if that divine right be taken in a sense secluding all other forms of government, save it alone, from the privilege of that title."

From Project Gutenberg

Within a century of his death he came to be regarded as the Prophet's successor jure divino; as a blessed martyr, sinless and infallible; and by some even as an incarnation of God.

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Since 1870 The pretension of the popes to wield "the two swords" had ever been a fruitful cause of friction in Europe; but in Rome the immense spiritual claims of the papacy joined to the claim that the Pope was de jure divino monarch of monarchs, and could command the sword of princes in carrying out his ecclesiastical behests, wore a unique aspect, for here the Pope was in actual possession of the temporal sword, and ruled the bodies as well as the souls of men.

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