exgod

See also: ex-god

English

Alternative forms

• ex-god

Etymology

ex- +‎ god

Noun

exgod (plural exgods)

1. One who was formerly a god or revered as such.
   • 1911, G. Stanley Hall, Educational Problems, volume II,D, Appleton and Company, page 46:

     A tribe subjected by a stronger one often feels that its own gods are weaker, and so they are discredited, and that those of its conquerors are mighty and so they prevail. Occasionally vistors^[sic] seem to cherish rancor against the religion of their victims, and hence many devils are really exgods, thus degraded.

   • 1998, Martin H. Greenberg, Bruce D. Arthurs, editors, Olympus, Daw, →ISBN, page 311:

     When next I looked up, there was another exgod at the desk. An older guy. In a toga, his hair and beard long-curled and oiled. Holy mud, it could have been Poseidon, himself . . . but was not.

   • 2010, Scott Mebus, The Sorcerer's Secret‎^[1], Puffin Books, →ISBN:

     Hex laughed and Rory started, realizing he'd been dropping his guard with the traitorous exgod.

Further reading

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