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jure divino

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

adverb

, Latin.
  1. by divine law.


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In spite of his Italian majority, the Pope could not get a majority for a direct negative denying the de jure divino theory.

And so that two forms of church government are jure divino, the universal church form, and the particular.

Pray, tell me, how much money will these new ministers of ours bring into the king's coffers, by this jure divino system?

In 1576, the General Assembly declared, that their right to ‘the patrimonie of the Kirk’ was ‘ex jure divino.’

Whether he had asserted presbyterial government to be jure divino?

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