divvers

Noun

1. divinity (as a subject or examination).
   • It is indeed no small hardship to give up fourteen successive evenings to an examination so farcical and extravagant as Divvers, which is void of definite purpose or result, when they might have been doing a thousand...
   • It was obvious to everybody by then that he was not going to pass "divvers". - 1988, Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, →ISBN, page 194:
   • With the increasing loss of faith by experiences in the trenches, many students after the war turned away from Christianity, some embracing humanism, and even Marxism. As a result, the University supported the...