Definition of Rain-giver

1. Noun. An epithet for Jupiter.

Exact synonyms: Jupiter Pluvius
Generic synonyms: Jove, Jupiter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain-giver

Ragnarok
Raguileo alphabet
Ragusa
Rahe-Holmes social readjustment rating scale
Rahim
Rahn-Otis sample
Rahu
Rahul
Rai
Rai Bahadur
Rai Sahib
Raie Ultime
Raies Ultimes
Raillietina
Rain-giver
Rain-in-the-Face
Rainbow Brite
Raine
Rainer
Rainer Maria Rilke
Raines
Rainey's corpuscles
Raipur
Raisa
Raja
Raja batis
Raja erinacea
Raja laevis
Raja radiata

Literary usage of Rain-giver

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

1. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"... the rain-giver, who dwells in the far North; while to the negro of West Africa the Heaven-god is the rain-giver, and may pass in name into the rain ..."

2. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1874)
"... the rain-giver, who dwells in the far North ; while to the negro of West Africa the Heaven-god is the rain-giver, and may pass in name into the rain ..."

3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"... the rain-giver, who dwells in the far North; while to the negro of West Africa the Heaven-god is the rain-giver, and may pass in name into the rain ..."

4. The Makers of Hellas: A Critical Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of by E. E. G., Frank Byron Jevons (1903)
"It will not surprise us, therefore, to find that Zeus, as the rain-giver, ... Surely we have here a motive very different from ' as the rain-giver ' ? ..."

5. Lays of Ancient India: Selections from Indian Poetry Rendered Into English Verse by Romesh Chunder Dutt, Dutt, Romesh, 1848-1909 (1894)
"... INDRA, THE rain-giver. 1 Vritra is supposed to confine the waters, and will not let them descend until the sky-god or rain-god, Indra, ..."

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