godship
English
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editNoun
editgodship (usually uncountable, plural godships)
- Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
- 1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Wonderfull Combate, vi, f. 78v:
- Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content.
- 2003 August 4, New Yorker, page 79:
- Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.
- (humorous, with 'his', 'her', 'your', etc.) A term of address to a deity.
Translations
editdivinity — see divinity