Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Divinity; godhood.
- noun The Christian God, especially the Trinity.
- noun The essential and divine nature of God, regarded abstractly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being God or a god; divine nature; deity; divinity.
- noun [capitalized] The essential being or nature of God; the Supreme Being in all his attributes and relations.
- noun A deity; a god or goddess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.
- noun The Deity; God; the Supreme Being.
- noun obsolete A god or goddess; a divinity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
divinity orgodhood , divine essence or nature - noun
God - noun rare any
deity oridol - noun an
admired orinfluential person orentity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And as far as the term "godhead" - if by that you are referring to the trinity as a general whole, plenty of people can explain it..
Did Jesus Claim To Be God? James F. McGrath 2009
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Ballou's belief that humans stand in union with the godhead was a transforming theological concept and a hotly debated topic more than 200 years ago.
Rev. Peter Morales: What Is Universalism? Rev. Peter Morales 2011
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When the godhead is a symbol of the qualities that inspire dread, and when the deity is the wielder of power, it is given the sex of those who wield real power on earth and who therefore inspire more dread than the members of the subordinate sex.
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Inasmuch as the godhead is the symbol and embodiment of the highest, as a matter of course it is endowed with the sex of the rulers -- or at any rate the deities belonging to the dominant sex take the first rank.
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The godhead is the personification of the highest, the best, the most efficient, and the wisest.
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The second appertaineth to the Son as to his godhead, that is to say in this, that he is God and it is such:
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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As Brigham Young explained, the Father in the godhead is the archangel Michael-Adam; he is the father of the spirits of those individuals who are born on this earth; he is the Father of Jesus 'mortal body; he is the Father to whom Jesus prays when Jesus is on earth; he is the angel / Father who appeared with Jesus to Joseph Smith in the sacred grove.
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Ultimately, it wasn't until a few hundred years after Jesus died that he officially became part of the "godhead," a term nobody can explain.
Did Jesus Claim To Be God? James F. McGrath 2009
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But if the author was making out Jesus to be an equal member of the "godhead," he picked an odd way to do it.
The Only True God In The Review of Biblical Literature James F. McGrath 2009
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Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the kernel of their faith in the symbol of the idol, had established a kind of godhead; and by his ferocious massacres had thoroughly cowed them.
Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle
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