godlike
See also: god-like
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: god‧like
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Adjective
godlike (comparative more godlike, superlative most godlike)
- Having the characteristics of a god.
- 1895, H. L. Mencken (translator), The Antichrist, translation of Der Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, §48:
- Man himself had been his greatest blunder; he had created a rival to himself; science makes men godlike — it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific!
- 1990 September 1, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game, Baen Books, →ISBN, →OL:
- When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate.
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- Characteristic of a god.
- 1817, John Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”:
- And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep / Of godlike hardship tells me I must die / Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
- 1850, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man:
- Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts.
- 1949, Henry Kuttner, The Time Axis, published 1965, →OL:
- It took the combined skills of three great civilizations far apart in time to frame that godlike concept in which the tangible universe itself was only a single factor.
- 1817, John Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”:
Translations
having characteristics of a god
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