goddess-ship

John Ramorny, “and success to the gallant knight Mars who goes a-wooing to her goddess-ship!”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

But in spite of these joyful tidings it must, alas! be remembered that Poena, that just but Rhadamanthine goddess, whom moderns ordinarily call Punishment, or Nemesis when we wish to speak of her goddess-ship, very seldom fails to catch a wicked man though she have sometimes a lame foot of her own, and though the wicked man may possibly get a start of her.

Framley Parsonage 2004

Her breath was pure and fresh, and her goddess-ship, which I had suspected of being something marshy, had no taint of mud about it.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Nay, she neither wished to do so, nor could she have done so, by the very faith of Diana's goddess-ship.

Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

"What, after all we heard of her doings at Milan -- after all the histories of her goddess-ship in every city of Italy?" said

A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851

But in spite of all these joyful tidings it must, alas! be remembered that Poena, that just but Rhadamanthine goddess, whom we moderns ordinarily call Punishment, or Nemesis when we wish to speak of her goddess-ship, very seldom fails to catch a wicked man though she have sometimes a lame foot of her own, and though the wicked man may possibly get a start of her.

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848

Hitherto she had had to support herself -- herself and her goddess-ship, -- first before George Bertram, and then with lighter effort before her aunt.

The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848

Waddington! if it had but been given thee to know, even then, how much of womanhood there was in thy bosom, of warm womanhood, how little of goddess-ship, of cold goddess-ship, it might still have been well with thee!

The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848

Whatever is done openly and in the face of the world, she takes but transient notice of; but whenever a transaction is done in a corner, and attempted to be shrouded in mystery, then her goddess-ship is at her wits 'end to find it out, and takes a most mischievous and lady-like pleasure in publishing it to the world.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

Ramorny, "and success to the gallant knight Mars who goes a-wooing to her goddess-ship!"

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801