Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A god or goddess.
- noun The essential nature or condition of being a god; divinity.
- noun God. Used with the.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Godhead; divinity; the attributes of a god; especially, the nature and essence of the one Supreme Being.
- noun [capitalized] God; the Supreme Being, or infinite self-existing Spirit: regularly with the definite article.
- noun A god; a divinity; a being to whom a divine or godlike nature is attributed; an object or a person worshiped as a god.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead.
- noun A god or goddess; a heathen god.
- noun God, the Supreme Being.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Without doubt the term deity was deliberately chosen, for it does not exclude a heathen interpretation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The anti-abortion holy rollers should be reminded that their deity is the greatest single abortionist in history, having “caused” countless miscarriages through the millenia, all for some “divine purpose.”
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Your other question of the deity is a metaphysical one and is based on faith.
Child Abuse Alert 2009
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The council of Nice and the decision to make Christ a deity is historical fact.
Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’ 2006
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For a lot of people, positing a deity is a pretty straightforward form of inference to the best explanation — and for a lot of our history, given the dizzying complexity of the natural world, it was scarcely an unreasonable hypothesis.
When Faith Isn’t 2005
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This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people.
Superstition 2009
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This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people.
Superstition 2009
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This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people.
Superstition 2009
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This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people.
Superstition 2009
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This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people.
Superstition 2009
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