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nobodaddy en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of nobody + daddy; c. 1793, William Blake.

Meanings

1. (derogatory) The anthropomorphic God of Christianity.
   • Sylvia Plath had a Nobodaddy. Job had a Nobodaddy. 2010, John Rember, MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book:
   • Likewise, Blake's God is not a Nobodaddy God, the Jehovah of the Bible, who himself was good but created in an evil universe. God and evil in Blake are not individuals but states. 1981, Charu Sheel Singh, The Chariot of Fire: A Study of William Blake in the Light of Hindu Thought, page 98:
   • The code is transgressive. It violates the repressive orders of Nobodaddies: the tyrannies arresting us in single vision, in dark-satanic wheels, the flat-line experience of exploitation and cynicism, the temporary manipulations of monomaniacal political or ad campaigns. 2014, B. W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, page 244:
   • Had "ultimate concern" in fact transformed God into little more than a "nobodaddy?" Was this just "merely a familiar form of atheism with a new name?" 2010, Richard Lints, Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies: The Tumultuous Decade of the 1960s, page 194:

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