By-god definition

Used as an intensifier.
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Used as an oath to emphasis the veracity of an associated statement.
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Used as an exclamation of surprise.

By God! That chicken has no head!

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Origin of by-god

  • ellipsis of a full oath of the form "I swear by God that...."

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By-god Sentence Examples

  • I want it to be sanctioned by god.

  • Body and mind are like two clocks which act together, because both have been set together by God.

  • We're a house of cards in a windstorm, held together by God knows what.

  • Zwingli and Calvin on the other hand prefer the positive view of law as instituted by God far back in history in the days of the Old Covenant; but,, when exegesis or controversy puts pressure upon them, they fall into line and reiterate the appeal to a Natural Law.

  • We must conceive nature as overruled by God not so much Later for the sake of man's happiness as for the sake of his form; moral development.

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