Definition of Godhead

1. Noun. Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God.


Definition of Godhead

1. n. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.

Definition of Godhead

1. Proper noun. The Trinity ¹

2. Proper noun. The divine nature of God as an abstract entity ¹

3. Noun. divinity or godhood, divine essence or nature ¹

4. Noun. God ¹

5. Noun. (rare) any deity or idol ¹

6. Noun. an admired or influential person or entity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Godhead

1. godhood [n -S] - See also: godhood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Godhead

God works in mysterious ways
Godard
Godardian
Godavari
Godcast
Godcasting
Godcasts
Goddard
Goddidit
Goddy
Godel
Godelier
Godelier's law
Godfrey
Godhead
Godiva
Godlikeness
Godman
Godman's fascia
Godsakes
Godspeed
Godunov
Godwin
Godwin's law
Godwin Austen
Godwin tumour
Godwinian
Godwottery
Godzilla

Literary usage of Godhead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1895)
"God is deity conceived in relation, over against the universe, its cause or ground, its law and end ; but the godhead is deity conceived according to His ..."

2. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"The godhead was communicated from the Father to the Son, ... Again, the same godhead was communicated by tho Father and the Son unto the Holy Ghost, ..."

3. The Christian View of God and the World as Centring in the Incarnation by James Orr (1893)
"I ^ 7-A°se abstract from other features in these theories, and look only which do not itt the grounds on which "godhead" is ascribed to Christ, ..."

4. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"The godhead is the beginning Bud final goal of the whole series of essences which exist It is in the latter capacity, or, it is there where every essence is ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Nor indeed can it be said that the passage, even though it manifests some knowledge of a second personality in the godhead, constitutes a revelation of the ..."

6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"These hast thou saved, and robb'd me of renown Uncaring, in thy godhead quite secure Of reckoning to be render'd afterward ; Dear should it cost thee now, ..."

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