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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"I don't think his godship will triumph there," said Lady Glencora.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony
My life detest I, I would not give the smallest hair of Nanna, For yet a thousand years thy whole godship!
From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry
Let me another truth attempt, Of which your godship has not dreamt: Those shining virtues which you muster, Whence think you they derive their lustre?
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Moore, Edward Caldwell
If a man disprove his godship out of his own mouth, we shall not be convinced by a coin in a fish's mouth or by his raising Lazarus, four days dead.
From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon
You may be certain there was a mendicant priest in attendance on his godship.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by Smith, J. J.
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