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English
Etymology
From ex- + god.
Noun
exgod (plural exgods)
- One who was formerly a god or revered as such.
1911, G. Stanley Hall, Educational Problems, volume II,D, Appleton and Company, page 46:A tribe subjected by a stronger one often feels that its own gods are weaker, and so they are discredited, and that those of its conquerors are mighty and so they prevail. Occasionally vistors seem to cherish rancor against the religion of their victims, and hence many devils are really exgods, thus degraded.
1998, Martin H. Greenberg, Bruce D. Arthurs, editors, Olympus, Daw, →ISBN, page 311:When next I looked up, there was another exgod at the desk. An older guy. In a toga, his hair and beard long-curled and oiled. Holy mud, it could have been Poseidon, himself . . . but was not.
2010, Scott Mebus, The Sorcerer's Secret, Puffin Books, →ISBN:Hex laughed and Rory started, realizing he'd been dropping his guard with the traitorous exgod.
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