Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity.
- noun A titular appellative of a god.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being a
god ;divinity , especially as a jocular epithet
Etymologies
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Examples
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I just don't think that, you know, it's a godship people are trying to drive him into the present terms of answering that question, put him on position, but I don't think that it's actually a real issue.
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I just don't think that, you know, it's a godship people are trying to drive him into the present terms of answering that question, put him on position, but I don't think that it's actually a real issue.
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I guess Alberto dipdong will be in competition for “godship” now with Dumbya?
Think Progress » Alberto Gonzales Can’t Name A Mistake He’s Made 2006
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I never talked so familiarly with his godship before: thou mayest think, therefore, that his dialect sounded oddly in my ears.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Special care is taken to antidote his godship with vine-tree syrup.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thou, a youth, hast down – trodden the right that to godship more
The Eumenides 2002
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Thou, a youth, hast down – trodden the right that to godship more
The Eumenides 2002
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Special care is taken to antidote his godship with vine-tree syrup.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"I don't think his godship will triumph there," said Lady Glencora.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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Then there arose a great enemy, a man fluent of diction, apparently with deep malice at his heart, though at home -- as we used to say at school -- one of the most good-natured fellows in the world; one ambitious of that godship which a seat on the other side of the House bestowed, and greedy to grasp at the chances which this disagreement in the councils of the gods might give him.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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