He presents it to us in his "Purgatory of St. Patrick" with a beauty that divests it of much of its native wildness.
There it divests itself of the subtle body, and the latter is merged in Brahman.
It divests not of a part only of the flesh, but of the whole body of carnal affections.
Others again regard the people as a whole as the highest power, because without their assent no law can prevail, and because even the king only has the power of which the people divests itself to transfer it to him.
At the marriage-altar, the law divests her of all distinct individuality.
And hedivests the gentleman of his coat and takes it to a maid and asks her please to take a stitch in it.
If doing us good is all that renders God lovely to us, then not doing us good divests Him of His glory, and dispenses us from obligation to love Him.
Indeed, the idea divests itself of the great bulk of the tactual details by which it was apprehended, whilst the muscular sensations which accompanied the act of palpation never seek to be joined with the idea.
He affirms that the image of an object which the blind acquires by touch readily divests itself of the characters of tactual sensation and differs profoundly from these.
Publication vests the statutory right of copyright, but a publication which divests the common law right does not necessarily invest the statutory right.
Publication divests the author or proprietor of an unpublished work of his common law rights therein.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
