God
/ɡɒd
/- She was advised to pray to the God of the Christians, who has power over all spirits.
- Even the Christian God at times would come into my dreams and makes himself known.
- Buddhists strive for a deep insight into the true nature of life and do not worship gods or deities.
- In Jainism, there is no worship of gods, goddesses or spirits.
- Hindus are truly monotheist but worship many gods and goddesses and see the same God in them.
Synonyms
- Both had wide platforms built around them in stone and mud, with three images of entwined snake gods embedded in the mud, close to the tree trunks.
- You're likely to by killed by a pant-dampening array of ferocious animal gods.
- A mountain is god, a river is god, and animals have natural and supernatural values.
Synonyms
- Alas, is this the fate the gods have allotted to the greatest journalist the British Empire has ever known?
- ‘Irony’ in its original form is the will of the fates or gods played out through the lives of mortals.
- What if that 60 minutes had been set aside by the gods of fate for your time to meet your lifelong soulmate?
- Ophim strives to uphold the Indian tradition that guests are gods; this will greatly appeal to the slothful.
- Posh and Becks have been promoted in status - from mere celebrities to gods.
- The process may have been low-key and painfully slow, but it has seen the old Republican gods and heroes repudiated.
- I've never made money my own god, so I'm not impressed by people who've got a lot of money.
- Spending less time with our families because one of both parents are chasing the money god.
- I feel robbed at not having the chance of sitting in the gods humming along with the line quoted below.
- Isn't there a point where you think: God, it's going to be great to be shot of all of this?
- I was thinking, good God, this was not an accident.
- Good god folks, if you don't want danger, don't race your bike!
Phrases
for God's sake!
God bless
God damn (you, him, etc.)
God the Father
God forbid
God grant
God help (you, him, etc.)
God the Son
God willing
in God's name
in the lap of the gods
(oh) my God
play God
please God
thank God
to God
with God
Derivatives
godhood
- And Jerry's godhood overseas and tireless work for Muscular Dystrophy are oversold, plus I'm not sure I wanted to know quite that much about Jerry's medical problems.
- But when an apology reflects poorly on the mistake that basically launched the Cold War, they bang their spoons on their highchairs about any attempt to tarnish FDR's godhood.
- Andrew, the nerd manipulated by grandiose dreams of godhood, must admit that he, not some outside force, killed his best friend.
godship
/ noun ...- This was the task that was given to all demi-gods, if they failed, then they would continue to live mortal lives - however, if they succeeded then they would be blessed with godship, and ultimate mastery of their element.
- All godships are in him and he appoints them their places; the gods of the dead and the gods of the living.
- The fact that they changed the English word from godship in the 1969 version to divinity in the 1985 version is also revealing.
godward
- I note that the papal text moves to point out that the godward depth of Christ's suffering is to be taken in a ‘humanly inexpressible way’.
- Other features of our identity-racial, ethnic, national, gendered, and sexual-take their place in relation to this basic godward orientation and the responsibilities that flow from it.
- Discussing the nature of the church as a spiritual society of the converted, he declared that the church is the creation of the Spirit, for he is the agent in that regeneration which is the godward side of conversion.
godwards
- These women had no blueprint for laying open the way godwards for women, except fidelity to their own insights, and their intuition that the way to God had to equally available to all.
- He's not unlike Ender himself, in many ways; but, especially at times when his weltschmerz ascends godwards, he more significantly resembles Gordon R. Dickson's greatest creation, Donal Graeme, the small tough strategic genius whose grasp of strategy is paranormal, and who dominates all 40 years of the Dorsai saga.
Origin
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch god and German Gott.
The Old English word God is related to similar words in German and in Scandinavian languages, but not to the Latin and Greek words, which were deus (see divine) and theos (as in theology (Late Middle English)). The top gallery in a theatre is known as the gods—the original term in the 1750s was the regions of the gods, because the seats were high up and therefore close to the heavens. Godfather and godmother has been used since around ad 1000. Godfather meaning ‘a leader of the American Mafia’ has been a familiar term since Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969) filmed in 1972, but was first recorded in the early 1960s. The origins of the British national anthem God save the Queen (or King) are not known for sure, but the song was definitely sung in London theatres in 1745, when the country was threatened by the Jacobite uprising led by the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the words and tune probably date from the previous century. ‘God save the king’ was a password in the navy as early as 1545—‘long to reign over us’ was the correct response. The exclamations gosh (mid 18th century) and golly (mid 18th century) were originally ways to avoid taking God's name in vain. See also lap