godhead
Example Sentences
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To his cult followers, he functions as a type of godhead whom they love and to whom they constantly express devotion.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2020
Mr. Schulz, as unassuming a man as he was, was a veritable godhead, revered in those divided times by Americans of all stripes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2018
And yet, though Thiel hovers above Wolfe’s narrative like an Oz-like godhead, he is barely a presence in it, except when he’s the recipient of its adulation.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2017
Philosophy did not depend upon the supernatural, and ethics did not require a godhead to be worth discussing – a discussion that can be traced back at least as far as Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2016
The godhead, in his zeal return’d, And kindling at her malice burn’d.
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore
