Crossword-Solution: DIVES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dives | n. | The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIVES | anagram | DEVIS, VISED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIVES (5)
The sun too, both at rising, and when soon He dives beneath the waves, shall yield thee signs; For signs, none trustier, travel with the sun, Both those which in their course with dawn he brings, And those at star-rise.
Not a bullet told upon Britomarte; Suddenly snorting, she launched along; So the osprey dives where the seagulls dart, So the falcon swoops where the kestrels throng.
His limbs were of paper, his mind quite in abeyance; I must uphold and guide him, prevent his frantic dives, and set him continually on his legs again.
How came you by that?” “It will be hard to cheesel,” Rorie opined reluctantly; and just then, dropping the oars, he made another of those dives into the stern which I had remarked as he came across to fetch me, and, leaning his hand on my shoulder, stared with an awful look into the waters of the bay.
Once at the hill, he dives for the central chamber, his sharp-clawed, splayey feet splashing up the sand like a bather in the surf.
Quotes with DIVES (3)
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopath…
Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels Have weight for good or for ill; But the Poor are only His image, His presence, His word, His will; -And so Lazarus lies at our doorstep And Dives neglects him still.
... Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ... Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 66 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).