deity
See also: $DEITY
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French deité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin deitās.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: de‧i‧ty
Noun
deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)
- Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:
- Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:
- A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
- 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 23:
- The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.
- 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 23:
Synonyms
- (a god): See Thesaurus:god
Hyponyms
Related terms
Terms etymologically related to deity
Translations
divinity — see divinity
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See also
References
- ^ The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, →ISBN.
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