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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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
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 William Cleaver Wilkinson
"In the high godship," he went on, mechanically, where he had stopped.
From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen
“Thither I rise, whilst thou—Zeus, keep the godship and sink!”
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
As they crossed their sacred boundary, Muriel cried, with a sudden outburst of tears, "Oh, Felix, what on earth shall we ever do to get rid of this terrible, unendurable godship!"
From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen
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