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deity Definition

de·ity (ə tē)

noun

  1. the state of being a god; divine nature; godhood
  2. pl. deities -·ties a god or goddess

Etymology: ME deite < OFr deité < LL(Ec) deitas, divinity (after L divinitas) < L deus, god < IE *deiwos, god < base *dei-, to gleam, shine > Sans deva, god, L dies, day, divus, god

deity Idioms

the Deity

God
deity Synonyms

deity

n.

divinity, god, goddess, idol; see god 1, 2, 3.

deity Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • affirm: First, we have already shown that both Matthew and the book of Acts affirm the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • deny: How can anyone deny the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ?

Adjective modifier

  • tutelary: The rolling fiery wheel was taken to be a representation of Man's tutelary deity, the sea god Manannan.
  • benevolent: How can there be a benevolent deity in charge of this world?
  • incarnate: He has a name, the Word of God, which expresses His incarnate deity.
  • omnipotent: A few days in the underworld can hardly have been a big deal for an eternal, omnipotent deity, can it?

Modifies a noun

  • dwell: That is why the Bible says of Jesus, " For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form.
  • form: These are the healing and empowering spells, rituals, prayers and invoked deity forms from many different traditions and ages.

Noun used with modifier

  • patron: The Serpent Rod is also the symbol of Aesculapius, the patron deity of Healing.
  • creator: This means that a creator deity must be a reasonable hypothesis.
Deity Quotes

He was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth.He doubted the existence of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

deity Quotes

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.

—Strachey, (Giles) Lytton

Ma¤  s que una costumbre, parece como un conjuro para una divinidad que todos desconocemos, que al reunirse varios cubanos†se permanece en un silencio de suspensio¤  n, hasta que se oye una voz cualquiera que dice o canta algo, que no tiene relacio¤  n con la convocatoria para la reunio¤ n .

—Lezama Lima,Jose¤

How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride.

—Rochdale

Prosperity is onlyaninstrumentto be used, not a deity to be worshipped. 236

—Coolidge, (John) Calvin

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