godlikeadj.adv.n.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) ii. 8 A man..maist godlyke, and full of grete leautee.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. v. 45 Is this the honour done to thame bene godlik?

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 707 This ilk Dauid,..Godlike he wes, full of deuotioun.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B3 A God or godlike man..Such as was Orpheus. View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 110 Thus the Godlike Angel answerd milde. View more context for this quotation

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 139. ⁋3 By such Measures this Godlike Prince learned to conquer.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 256 Thus spoke Calypso to her god-like guest.

1800 C. Lamb Let. 15 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 259 I think that a more godlike honest soul exists not in this world.

1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 266 On God and Godlike men we build our trust.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xviii. 273 Italy is heroic, but Greece is godlike or devilish.

1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up iv. 35 Brawny, godlike, brief-trunked young men.

2002 New Yorker 18 Nov. 990/1 Tomalin finds his energy ‘more godlike than human’, but it's more accurate to see him as humanity supersized.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 18 Thare he dois vs to wit, yat jn him ar twa willis, bathe manlyke and godlyke.

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 166 (MED) Worschepeþ his natiuite reuerently, but noȝt..þrouȝ makyng of grete fires in stretis..and feȝtyngis, but in syche ioyinge þat is godlike.

1555 J. Harpsfield in E. Bonner Homilies 3 Endued with most heuenly & godlike qualities.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 3 Maddam,..you haue a noble and a true conceite of god-like amitie. View more context for this quotation

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 Godlike to behold, His Royal Body shines with specks of Gold. View more context for this quotation

1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv To what a godlike height The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.

1725 G. Berkeley Proposal in Wks. (1871) III. 230 An excellent and godlike temper of mind.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 32 The God-like faculty of reason.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 89 He was compelled..to forego his work of heroic, or rather godlike benevolence.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 81 Paris of the godlike form Appeared in sight.

1949 P. Grainger Let. 7 June in All-round Man (1994) 235 Is this not a godlike summing up of our whole time-stretch..& of the state of the British World-realm?

1998 K. Eshun More Brilliant than Sun iii. 61 The mind's eye, the threshold to godlike perception.

1606 J. Marston Wonder of Women i. ii. sig. B^v She that is iust in loue is Godlike chaste.

1643 W. Walwyn Power of Love sig. A 3 Whosoever is possest with love, judgeth no longer as a man, but god-like, as a true Christian.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 289 Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect. View more context for this quotation

1777 Gentleman's Mag. June 286/1 Honours far more sublime to him belong Who, godlike, looks on wealth and power with scorn.

1850 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia I. 36 I know there are not dungeons..enough, in all the Earth, to prevent him from walking forth God-like, and in the Image of his Maker.

1967 J. Barth Floating Opera (rev. ed.) xxvii. 244 From high on his chair Capt. Adam regarded his brood with an olympian smile—and calmly, more godlike than he, I too smiled.

1995 Guardian 16 Oct. ii. 11/3 Godlike she let her voice soar over the music.

1654 Priviledges of Ambassadour 12 The God-like should go into the Temples, and these like men into the Inns.

1697 S. Cobb Pax Redux 3 Of all the fam'd Nassovian Line (That is, of all the God-like and Divine) None equal to Great William shine.

a1788 W. J. Mickle Poems (1794) 112 The godlike and humane Of latest ages, injur'd Queen, are thine.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iii. 80/1 Is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the Godlike!

1879 Amer. Art Rev. 1 71 It became more and more the express image of the godlike.

1959 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 22 100 Satan pretends to divinity, both are to some extent norms of the godlike and divine.

1992 J. Hamilton-Paterson Seven-tenths v. ii. 176 Nowadays space aliens may well incline towards the godlike, beings from whom we might acquire knowledge, enlightenment, light itself.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. ii. vii. 401 Things innumerable pertayning rather to bodily exercise which profiteth little, then to Godlinesse, or God-likenesse.

1650 J. Cardell Morbus Epidemicus 35 Godliness is God-likeness.

1759 E. Goldney Epist. to Deists & Jews 26 Godlikeness, which has a tendency to render mankind illustrious on earth, and glorious in heaven.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 266 Godliness, i.e. godlikeness.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. ii. 12 The expiring God-likeness of Jesus of Nazareth.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) ii. xi. 117 The Holy Spirit..communicating to good men of every age and generation God-likeness and immortality.

1963 in S. Noveck Contemp. Jewish Thought iii. lvii. 307 So by the continuous upward striving of man the lower passions, with their evil tendencies, work more and more toward the triumph of the good. Man unfolds his Godlikeness.

2006 Church Times 24 Mar. 10/3 Godlikeness was seen in the way male and female together were made to show God's likeness in the world.