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godhood|ˈgɒdhʊd|
[f. god n.: see -hood.]
1. In early use: = Godhead 1. Now chiefly, the state or rank of being a god.
a1225Ancr. R. 112 [Christ's flesh] euer was iliche cwic of þe cwike godhod þet wunede þerinne. 1563Homilies ii. Nativity (1859) 405 Christ consisteth of two several natures; of his manhood..and of his Godhood. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 105 Wee must know to contemper the perfect man⁓hoode and the perfect Godhood. 1613Heywood Silver Age ii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 106 He by his power and God-hood will contract Both births in one. 1624― Gunaik. i. 3 The same Philosophers attributed a God-hood to the Starres. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. vii. iv, Shorter godhood had no divine man. 1850Hare Mission Comf. 65 When He vouch⁓safes to come forth out of His absolute Godhood, in the Person of His Son and Spirit. 1876H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 416 This elevation to godhood of a living member of the tribe.
†b. = Godhead 1 b. Obs.
1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. Pordage's Mystic Div. 11 Momus..who wold be ever carping (such was the snarl of his goodli Godhood).
†2. = Godhead 2 b. Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. æneidos 336 So farre off from a Godhoode, as thou shewest thy selfe lesse than a man, and woorse than a Diuell. |