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Definition of Teutonic deity
1. Noun. (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons.
Generic synonyms: Deity, Divinity, God, Immortal
Specialized synonyms: Donar, Hertha, Nerthus, Wotan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teutonic Deity
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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