deva
Americannoun
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Hinduism, Buddhism. a god or divinity.
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Zoroastrianism. one of an order of evil spirits.
noun
Etymology
Origin of deva
From Sanskrit
Example Sentences
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In Buddhism, matchmaking parents—sponsors—of a prospective couple are encouraged to consult an astrologist and, if unsuccessful, are urged to query an inner-world deva.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
There is but one Self in the lowliest dust and the loftiest deva.
From An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Wood Besant
All I say is, if deva corresponds to θεὁς, we must try to find the reason or the circumstances which caused so unusual a correspondence.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Dyaus in itself was as good a name as any for God, and in some respects more appropriate than its derivative deva, the Latin deus, which the Romance nations still use without meaning any harm.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
There was as yet no necessity for defining deva or θεὁς, when applied to what was meant by gods, but of course the most opposite meanings had clustered round it.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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