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English
Etymology
From god + -ship.
Noun
godship (usually uncountable, plural godships)
- Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Wonderfull Combate, vi, f. 78v:Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content.
2003 August 4, New Yorker, page 79:Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.
- (humorous, with 'his', 'her', 'your', etc.) A term of address to a deity.
- 1533, Thomas Heywood, The Play of the Wether, sig. Bii:
- Yf it please your gracyous godshyp.
1994, Dustin Griffin, Satire, page 86:The gods, addressed without ceremony in Juvenal as vos... become ‘Your Godships’.
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