单词 | godness |
释义 | Godnessn. 1. The quality of being God; = godhead n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > state of being or divinity godhoodeOE godcundnessOE drightnessc1175 godcundlaikc1175 Godnessa1225 godhead?c1225 godcundec1275 godcundheada1300 deityc1374 divinityc1374 divine1393 divineness1579 divinesse1594 divination1603 deism1726 superhumanity1792 superhuman1824 suprahumanitya1834 numinousness1932 numinosity1936 ground1945 a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 99 God is icundeliche on þreom Hadan... Heore cunde is unto-deledlich efter [read efer] wuniende on ane godnesse [OE Royal godcundnysse]. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 101 Þere halȝan þremnesse is an godnesse [OE Royal godcundnyss]. a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (McClean) l. 327 in Anglia (1907) 30 236 (MED) God is suo mer & suo muchel in his godnesse [a1200 Trin. Cambr. godcunnesse]. c1350 in Anglia (1906) 29 408 (MED) Noght two þowheþer is, bot Crist an—On, noht þurght wending of godhede in fflesshe, Bot þurght takyng of manhede in godnesshe. 1839 J. Peace Apol. Cathedral Service 46 Goodness is Godness, and it were impious to put in a claim to it. 1876 G. MacDonald Thomas Wingfold III. xix. 187 It's so wonderful that he can be all to everybody! That is his Godness, you know. 1890 E. C. Dargan Comm. Epist. to Colossians 30/2 The word (θεότης) which would literally be rendered ‘Godness’, if there were such a word. 1956 G.T. Thomson & H. Knight tr. K. Barth Church Dogmatics I. ii. ii. 32 The most general meaning of the incarnation of the Word of God,..of his God-ness and his man-ness. 1969 T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. ii. 66 This was a distinction that guarded the Godness of God on the one hand, and the naturalness of nature on the other hand. 2001 D. K. McKim Introducing Reformed Faith iii. 25 The three persons all share the same ‘God-ness’. 2. The divine nature, or an aspect of it, as embodied or expressed in a human being. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > divine quality or power divinityc1528 numen1662 Godness1883 1883 G. MacDonald Donal Grant III. ii. 10 It rests with him to cultivate either the godness or the selfness in him. 1915 Nautilus Oct. 41/2 Man was not made for churches, but the churches for man to express his godness through. 1990 E. Babbie in T. Robbins & D. Anthony In Gods we Trust (ed. 2) 461 Evolution toward the long-term experience of our god-ness. 2006 E. Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love xcii. 273 All she has to do is to permit her God-ness to flow through her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1225 |
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