Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mythology, a deity that presides over the waters, or over some particular body, stream, or fountain of water.
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Examples
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Anon, when I gave birth to thee, because I felt shame of my sisters and my maiden years, I sent thee to the swirling stream of thy sire, the water-god; and Strymon did not entrust thy nurture to mortal hands, but to the fountain nymphs.
Rhesus 2008
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Anon, when I gave birth to thee, because I felt shame of my sisters and my maiden years, I sent thee to the swirling stream of thy sire, the water-god; and Strymon did not entrust thy nurture to mortal hands, but to the fountain nymphs.
Rhesus 2008
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I began to be afraid that the miller must have failed in his stratagem against the water-god, and that, as I had read in
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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Kaluna came up just after we had crossed, undressed, made his clothes into a bundle, and got over amphibiously, leaping, swimming, and diving, looking like a water-god, with the horse and mule after him.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Perhaps that is why I want to go to England by water as if you were a water-god and could favour me.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Perhaps that is why I want to go to England by water as if you were a water-god and could favour me.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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O thou of fierce rays, this our (human) body dependeth on Varuna (the water-god)!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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He went back to the house and told the family that the water-god was angry and had washed away all that he had hoped to have for the coming year.
Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner
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And the family lived on in peace and happiness, as they had done before the water-god became angry with them.
Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner
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I mounted on the broken water-god of a dry bath and leaped
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