godgrandmother

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English

Noun

godgrandmother (plural godgrandmothers)

  1. Alternative form of god-grandmother.
    • 1966, Ruben E. Reina, The Law of the Saints: A Pokomam Pueblo and Its Community Culture, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →LCCN, page 233:
      She was asked if this child were her godson. “No, he is the godson of my son, and I am his godgrandmother.”
    • 1986 fall, MWC Today, volume 11, number 1, page 21, column 1:
      Over the years she has maintained a close relationship with several former students. Currently, she alternates between visiting and hostessing two in Roanoke and Greenville, N.C., respectively, and is a proud godgrandmother to one’s new baby.
    • 1998, “Stephen Grossberg”, in James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld, editors, Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 181:
      He and his wife Fagi took me under their wing as a kind of scientific godchild. They had two daughters about my age, but no sons. Fagi is, in fact, the Godgrandmother of our daughter.
    • 2019 July 6, “ Danny D. Jones”, in The Herald-Palladium, page A7:
      He is survived by his loving parents, Stacy and Anthony Jones Sr.; aunts: Shenita Jones, Keesha Jones, Crystal Krause, Stephanie Hoyt and Elizabeth Casey; special cousin, Kenvon Opande; godmother, Jasmine Jones; and godgrandmother, Cornelia Davenport.