Godhead Definition

gŏdhĕd
noun
Godhood; divinity.
Webster's New World
The Christian God, especially the Trinity.
American Heritage
The essential and divine nature of God, regarded abstractly.
American Heritage

(rare) Any deity or idol.

Wiktionary

An admired or influential person or entity.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
pronoun

The Trinity.

Wiktionary

The divine nature of God as an abstract entity.

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Other Word Forms of Godhead

Noun

Singular:
godhead
Plural:
godheads

Origin of Godhead

  • Middle English godhode, godhede from Old English godhād god god god -hād -hood

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English god +‎ -head, first attested in the Ancrene Riuwle (ca. 1225); compare godhood.

    From Wiktionary

Godhead Sentence Examples

  • In the earliest periods of Christian art this splendour was confined to the figures of the persons of the Godhead, but it was afterwards extended to the Virgin Mary and to several of the saints.

  • The strict distinction between nimbus and aureole is not commonly maintained, and the latter term is most frequently used to denote the radiance round the heads of saints, angels or persons of the Godhead.

  • Gillespie's able Argument a priori for the Being and Attributes of the Godhead, published part by part 1833-1872.

  • Looking into the immensity of space, man also looks into the depths of godhead.

  • From most of the other Gnostic sects, with the exception perhaps of the JewishChristian Gnosticism, he is distinguished by the fact that with him the figure of the fallen female god (Sophia Achamoth), and, in general, the idea of a fall within the godhead is entirely wanting.

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