Will someone please speculate about how the foamy candy known as 'divinity' came to be so-called in the nominative rather than the adjectival form? This type of candy goes back at least as far as the American Revolution, and I wonder that people--at least that far back--would have named a candy so closely in alignment with the name of God. Now had such a candy been called simply Divine, there would have been not a jot of sacrilege, but Divinity outright? Hmmmm... I'm just wondering.

Thanks for any insight.