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Definition of Deity
1. Noun. Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force.
Group relationships: Pantheon
Specialized synonyms: Demogorgon, Hypnos, Morpheus, Boddhisatva, Bodhisattva, Arhant, Arhat, Lohan, Quetzalcoatl
Generic synonyms: Spiritual Being, Supernatural Being
Specialized synonyms: Daemon, Demigod, Sea God, Sun God, Celtic Deity, Egyptian Deity, Semitic Deity, Hindu Deity, Persian Deity, Chinese Deity, Japanese Deity, Goddess, Earth God, Earth-god, Demiurge, Graeco-roman Deity, Greco-roman Deity, Greek Deity, Roman Deity, Norse Deity, Teutonic Deity, Anglo-saxon Deity, Phrygian Deity, Saint, God Of War, War God, Snake God, Zombi, Zombie
Derivative terms: Deify, Divine
Definition of Deity
1. n. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
Definition of Deity
1. Noun. (mythology religion) A preternatural or supernatural human or non-human being or entity, or an object that possesses miraculous or supernatural attributes, powers or superpowers (e.g. a god or goddess). ¹
2. Noun. (mythology religion) The divine character of a divinity. ¹
3. Noun. (mythology religion) A being, entity or object revered as a god or goddess. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deity
1. a god or goddess [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deity
Literary usage of Deity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"In case Yah weh was a deity known in Israel long before the time of Moses, or
was the deity of one of the ancestors of the people or of a non-Israelitic ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"One of his synonyms, however, is the name of a Vedic deity, the attributes ...
Possibly some of them were tho names under which one and the same deity was ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... Ancestor—Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its
development through the course of culture—Good and Evil deity—Doctrine ..."
4. Religion and Science: A Series of Sunday Lectures on the Relation of Natural by Joseph LeConte (1877)
"But there is still something more required for the highest and purest conception
of deity, and accordingly we have something more revealed in both of these ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"As an extreme doctrine, it views matter as well as form as the product of divine
volition ; in я modified form, it conceives the deity as simply fashioning ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"ON THE VALUE OF OUR CONCEPTS OF THE deity Part I — From the 'Summa Theologica'
IT 1s obvious that terms implying negation or extrinsic relation in no way ..."
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