Definition of Teutonic deity

1. Noun. (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons.

Category relationships: Mythology, Teuton
Generic synonyms: Deity, Divinity, God, Immortal
Specialized synonyms: Donar, Hertha, Nerthus, Wotan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teutonic Deity

Tettigoniidae
Tetum
Teucrian
Teucrium
Teucrium canadense
Teucrium chamaedrys
Teucrium marum
Teucrium scorodonia
Teutleben
Teutleben's ligament
Teutoburger Wald
Teutomania
Teuton
Teutonic
Teutonic Knights
Teutonic deity
Teutonicism
Teutonicisms
Teutonick
Teutonism
Teutons
Teutophobia
Tevere
Tevet
Tewa
Tewan
Tewans
Tewkesbury
Tex
Tex-Mex

Literary usage of Teutonic deity

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

1. Fraser's Magazine (1873)
"... and if they drop certain charms on the blossoming orchards, the crop will be blighted.2 Again, the name of Tiw, the teutonic deity who is recorded in ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1880)
"... from the figure of the Wild Huntsman, who himself is provably a later mask of the chief teutonic deity Wodan, or Odin, after the latter had been deposed ..."

3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"The ancient judicial and punitive Satan has a quaint survival in an old Teutonic deity supposed to go around and give presents to all the good children, ..."

4. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"The ancient judicial and punitive Satan has a quaint survival in an old Teutonic deity supposed to go around and give presents to all the good children, ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1891)
"In " Hertha," the island-dwelling, teutonic deity whom Tacitus understood to be Mother Earth, is identified with Nature in the widest sense, ..."

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