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godship en · NOUN

Etymology

From god + -ship.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
   • Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content. 1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Wonderfull Combate, vi, f. 78v:
   • Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion. 2003 August 4, New Yorker, page 79:
2. (humorous, qualifier:'her'; 'your'; 'her'; 'your', uncountable, usually, with 'his') A term of address to a deity.
   • Yf it please your gracyous godshyp. 1533, Thomas Heywood, The Play of the Wether, sig. Bii
   • The gods, addressed without ceremony in Juvenal as vos... become ‘Your Godships’. 1994, Dustin Griffin, Satire, page 86:

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Synonyms

divinity