godship

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For my good Genius, I must beg you to observe, has frequently taken lessons of the god Mercury, and is nearly as adroit in petty larceny as his godship himself.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

But have we not found the process during the last four hundred years to be from citizenship to godship, from creature to creator?

From Is civilization a disease? by Coit, Stanton

"I don't think his godship will triumph there," said Lady Glencora.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

Strikes the beholder’s eye with burnish’d gold: To godship here blue Triton’s scaly herd, The river progeny is there preferr’d: Through towns Diana’s power neglected lies, Where to her dogs aspiring temples rise!

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

My life detest I, I would not give the smallest hair of Nanna, For yet a thousand years thy whole godship!

From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry