God's country
Americannoun
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an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
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an isolated rural area.
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one's native region.
Etymology
Origin of God's country
1860–65;
Example Sentences
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“This is a clay dirt road way out in the middle of what we call God’s country on the way to a nice little fishing lake.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
When I leave the demonstration, I drive southeast out of Atlanta toward Arbery’s hometown, Brunswick, five hours away on the Atlantic Ocean, across God’s country, where nobody wears a mask.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020
This sense, still, of walking with God in God’s country, trying to do the right thing.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2018
“It’s God’s country, and it gives us peace. And that’s how I like to live, in peace.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2015
Here, confronting a great loneliness, he was feeling the contrast between the land, whose children called it God's country, and his own meagre hills, where the creeks bore such names as Pestilence and Hell-fer-sartain.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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