On May 25, 10:06 am, Horace LaBadie <
hlaba...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> > ---
> > [the sheriff is approached by angry people]
>
> > [...] already a passing car had braked suddenly (and then the
> > following one behind it) at first to keep from running over them and
> > then for its occupants to lean out looking at the sheriff s car where
> > the first man to reach it had already stopped to peer into it, his
> > brown farmer s hands grasping the edge of the open window, his brown
> > weathered face thrust into the car curious divinant and abashless
> > while behind him his massed duplicates in their felt hats and sweat-
> > stained panamas listened.
>
> > Intruder in the Dust
> > William Faulkner
> > ---
>
> > divinant": is there any dictionary word for it??