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Godship

Godship \God"ship\, n. [God, n. + -ship.] The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.

O'er hills and dales their godships came.
--Prior.

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godship

n. The condition of being a god; divinity, (non-gloss definition: especially as a jocular epithet)

Usage examples of "godship".

Some day we shall put Nature in its proper place as kindergarten teacher, and drop it from godship and erect enlightened human understanding instead.

Then you wonder if you should have shared with him any secret of godship, but rather have looked for a convenient mountain to pile upon him.

His theology was weak, but for a mortal to claim godship smacked of heresy, not to say sacrilege and blasphemy, even to him.

Imagine those fools - no, idiots - thinking they could create a controllable god, when the very essence of godship is uncontrollability.

They wait for that moment for us to admit their godship, and come and bow down before them.

He was a god who knows that he is mortal and is therefore afraid lest at any moment he may be called upon to lose his godship in his mortality.

However, the Excalibur saucer was bound by the laws of physics, able to maneuver only just so fast and no faster, while the godship moved to laws all its own.

The Teuton had suddenly discovered that it was right and proper in his godship, as it was in the realm of the Greek deities, to go about naked.

I cannot, however, help noticing how extraordinary it is, and how this epoch of ours differs from all bygone epochs in having no philosophical nor religious worshippers of the ragged godship of poverty.

Demand then that Jad-ben-Otho uphold his godship and the dignity of his priesthood by directing his consuming fires through my own bosom.

Odin and Freya maintained their godships in Gaul and Germany and among the Hyperboreans.