goddesshoodn.
/ˈɡɒdᵻshʊd/, /ˈɡɒdɛshʊd/, U.S. /ˈɡɑdəsˌhʊd/ The state, condition, or position of being a goddess.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > goddess > nature of
goddesshood1644
goddess-ship1675
1644 T. Prujean Aurorata sig. B7v She [sc. Venus] would thinke her goddesse-hood was given, But for a mocke to her from th'voyce of heaven.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xlv. 259 And should not my beloved, for her own sake, descend, by degrees, from goddess-hood into humanity?
1851 S. Coleridge in Mem. & Lett. (1874) II. 510 With an expectation of going back into her original state of goddesshood the day after.
1888 A. Nutt Legends Holy Grail 241 (note) Who might woo without forfeiting womanly modesty, in virtue of her goddesshood.
1993 Grain Spring 83 He is impressed that she has evolved so far toward goddesshood.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Dec. 41/1 His attempts to particularize his erotic life alternate with sometimes preposterous elevations of women—‘the woman’—into goddesshood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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