godhead
/ˈɡɒd.hɛd/
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Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
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2
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6
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Meaning
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The Trinity.
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The divine nature of God as an abstract entity.
Example Sentences
- "House and tenant go to ground, / Lost in God, in Godhead found."
- "For the inuisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearely seene, being vnderstood by the things that are made, euen his eternall Power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse:"
- "It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men. As compared with the Indians he had known, they were to him another race of beings, a race of superior gods. They impressed him as possessing superior power, and it is on power that god-head rests."
- "For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily."
- "when at the holy mount / Of Heav'ns high-ſeated top, th' Impereal Throne / Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and ſure,"
- "They unanimously pronounced, that the worship of images is agreeable to Scripture and reason, to the fathers and councils of the church: but they hesitate whether that worship be relative or direct; whether the Godhead, and the figure of Christ, be entitled to the same mode of adoration."
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Wiktionary places this term in Religion.