earth divinity
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A god or goddess of the Earth, as opposed to the sky.
Example Sentences
- "Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.]"
- "As such they were at first the natural places for rites intended to compel the earth; later they became definite sanctuaries of earth divinities."