God-man
noun
Jesus Christ.
God-man
American
[god-man, -man]
/ ˈgɒdˈmæn, -ˌmæn /
noun
God-men
plural
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Jesus Christ.
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(lowercase) a being who possesses the combined attributes of a deity and of a human; demigod.
God man
British
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of God-man
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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Miles said Christians believe that this points to the idea that the covenant was made "spiritually" between the "Father and the God-man Jesus Christ — rather than Abram himself," although Abram benefited from it.
From Fox News • Mar. 13, 2022
If Lawrence was the last colonial God-man, he was also the movie epic's first moody hero, father to countless sacred screen madmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the Church has ever clung with a tenacity of grasp, which shallow hearts could ill understand, to this central idea, the indefeasible wedlock of heaven and earth in the God-man.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.
He thinks to himself: What this God-man says is indeed perfectly true.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
The omniscient God-man here asserts the existence of graces which remained inefficacious in Corozain and Bethsaida, though had they been given to the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they would have proved effective.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
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