Definition of "heaven-born" [heaven-born]

• Born of or sent by heaven.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "By the clearer vision vouchsafed me, I beheld Erasmus, fire-flashing, heaven-born, while I — I was merely a clay-born, a son of earth."
• "But the power will shift towards the individual & we will no longer have to passively absorb the wisdom of a heaven-born caste of journalists, especially because it's now widely known thanks to blogging & also the efforts of the likes of Nick Davies that they aren't as superior as they imagine themselves to be."
• "Dick Tinto became an assistant; and thus, as is not unusual among heaven-born geniuses in this department of the fine arts, began to paint before he had any notion of drawing."