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goddessling en · NOUN

Etymology

From goddess + -ling.

Meanings

1. A minor female divinity; a local or inferior goddess.
   • After they had become Hinduized and had adopted Hindu manners and customs, they began to worship a number of Hindu godlings and goddesslings along with their old tribal deities. 1984, Indian Culture: Journal of the Indian Research Institute, volume 4, page 247:
   • its paganism looks away from nature to myth or (as Coleridge unkindly put it when preferring Hebrew poetry to Greek), for the Greeks ‘all natural objects were dead – mere hollow statues – but there was a godkin or goddessling included in each’. 1988, Laurence Lerner, “Ovid and the Elizabethans”, in Ovid Renewed, page 134:
   • The cult of the goddessling Suo-Duo or So-Do is so strongly prevalent in Lower Bengal that, on the Pous Sankrant Day or Makar Sankrant Day, which falls on or about... 1928, The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, volume 14, page 811:
2. A young goddess.

Forms

Relateds

heroine · goddess · demigoddess · spirit · idol

Synonyms

goddesslet · goddesskin