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

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

Especially after it turns out that the boy is the godhead of a flock and somehow has access to top-secret government coordinates.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2016

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

Each son of the dead father founded his own family, but still owed allegiance to the earthly representative of their deified father—the eldest son—on whom a portion of the father's godhead had descended.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil