单词 | godkin |
释义 | godkinn. A little or inferior god; = godling n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > demigod or hero kingeOE half-godc1374 semigoda1464 heroa1522 demigod1530 indigetec1550 petty god1581 under-god1583 heroic1586 godling1596 semi-deity?1624 goddikin1675 medioxumus1677 godkin1765 man-god1826 godlet1884 1765 L. Abbott Poems Var. Subj. 61 I heard your Quarrel, Godkins both, And swear by Styx..One's blind, and headlong t'other. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. 10 Sept. (1956) II. 459 All natural Objects were dead—mere hollow Statues—but there was a Godkin or Goddessling included in each. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 19 Aloft the godkin sits in pride, Exultin' in the jokes o' men. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. iii. 74 The little godkin, Man, is quite as odd as on the day he was made. 1865 Macmillan's Mag. July 282 Who bathed in the baths?.. Who worshipped the godkins? 1931 tr. V. Lenin Let. in A. S. Kaun Maxim Gorky & his Russia 437 Precisely because any religious idea, any idea about any kind of a godkin, even the slightest flirtation with a godkin, is the vilest turpitude. 1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 104 A little god, a little, modest god, a godkin in a shriven cupboard..presiding over the hierarchies of the silverware. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasgod-kin god-kin n. [in quot. 2003 translating post-classical Latin commater commother n. (from a medieval source); compare Middle English godsibbe (see gossip n. 1).] ΚΠ 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iv. 379 Round the fettered and bound they throng As men in the bitter battle round the God-kin over-strong. 2003 D. L. Smail Consumption of Justice 105 Uga, moreover, was Tomas's god-kin, a spiritual relationship that would more or less exclude the possibility of a profound social gulf between them. < n.1765 as lemmas |
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