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divine right is a noun meaning "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". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for divine right come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.