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RELATED WORDS : all right by right of office civil right conjugal right conjugal visitation right divine divine comedy divine guidance divine law divine messenger divine office divine right of kings divine service divine unity exclusive right hard right human right in her own right in her right mind in his own right in his right mind in its own right in one's own right in their right minds john the divine just right legal right natural right not right own right patent right preemptive right property right put right radical right religious right revelation of saint john the divine right right along right and left right angle right ascension right atrioventricular valve right atrium right atrium of the heart right away right bank right brain right coronary artery right field right fielder right gastric artery right gastric vein right hand right hand man right hander right hemisphere right mind right minded right of action right of election right of entry right of first publication right of offset right of privacy right of re-entry right of search right of way right on right smart right sort right stage right to an attorney right to confront accusors right to due process right to liberty right to life right to privacy right to speedy and public trial by jury right to the pursuit of happiness right to vote right triangle right ventricle right whale right wing right winger riparian right sense of right and wrong set right stage right subscription right the right way undivided right visitation right voting right water right writ of right

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Noun divine right has 1 sense

• divine right(n = noun.cognition) divine right of kings - the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes; "the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century"
is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought

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divine right

absolute power, absolutism, appurtenance, authority, birthright, claim, competence, competency, conjugal right, constituted authority, delegated authority, demand, droit, due, faculty, inalienable right, indirect authority, inherent authority, interest, jus divinum, lawful authority, legal authority, legitimacy, natural right, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, regality, right, rightful authority, royal prerogative, the say, the say-so, title, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority

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Authority

N authority, influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction, right, direction, government, divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness, absoluteness, absolutism, despotism, jus nocendi, jus divinum, mastery, mastership, masterdom, dictation, control, hold, grasp, grip, gripe, reach, iron sway, fangs, clutches, talons, rod of empire, commission, deputy, permission, at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential, arbitrary, compulsory, stringent, at one's command, in one's power, in one's grasp, under control, in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of, under the auspices of, in the hands of, at one's pleasure, by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen, ex mero motu, ex cathedra, from the chair, the gray mare the better horse, every inch a king.

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