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Godhead¹
Where it comes from
From Middle English Godhede, equivalent to God + -head (“-hood”). Doublet of godhead.
proper noun
- The Trinity.
- The divine nature of God as an abstract entity. House and tenant go to ground, / Lost in God, in Godhead found.
godhead²
- /ˈɡɒd.hɛd/
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English godhede, equivalent to god + -head (“-hood”). First attested in the Ancrene Wisse (ca. 1225); compare godhood and Dutch godheid as well as German Gottheit.
noun godheads
- Divinity or godhood, divine essence or nature. 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:
- God. For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily.
- Any deity or idol. Adoring firſt the Genius of the Place, / Then Earth, the Mother of the Heav'nly Race, / The Nymphs, and native Godheads yet unknown, / And Night, and all the Stars that gild her ſable Throne,
- An admired or influential person or entity. He pauses, as if hesitant to mention the godhead of computer design aloud, and adds, "Maybe even something Apple would be interested in."
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noun admired or influential person or entity
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title = {godhead},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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