all-father
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.24 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Odin.
noun
A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.
Example Sentences
- "Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves."
- "At a primitive stage this is sometimes (e.g. with the Australians) scarcely regarded as communion with a specific divinity or divinities, yet the All-Fathers and the mythical beings fill an important rôle in these rites, while at a more developed stage the rites have a close connexion with chthonic or heavenly powers."
- "The Arunta totemic system could not coexist with an All-Father."