godship
Americannoun
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the rank, character, or condition of a god.
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Often Facetious. a title used in referring to a godlike person.
A bevy of servants were on hand to attend their godship's every whim.
Etymology
Origin of godship
Example Sentences
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Mr. Matthew Arnold, on the other hand, lost no opportunity to flout with indignity the claims of Victor Hugo to his supreme literary godship.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
Jesus died to save those who could accept his claim to godship —believing that he would go to sit at the right hand of God to judge the world.
From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon
I told all of my story that I wished to tell, admitting that I had posed as a sort of demi-god, but breathing no hint of the godship which was over my priesthood.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
His godship was very discriminating in the goodness and freshness of these offerings; for he rejected such as were stale, to be returned next morning, with his maledictions, to the fraudulent donors.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
"In the high godship," he went on, mechanically, where he had stopped.
From The Great Taboo by Allen, Grant
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