Deity

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  • noun. A god or goddess.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The essential nature or condition of being a god; divinity.
  • noun. God. Used with the.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Godhead; divinity; the attributes of a god; especially, the nature and essence of the one Supreme Being.
  • noun. [capitalized] God; the Supreme Being, or infinite self-existing Spirit: regularly with the definite article.
  • noun. A god; a divinity; a being to whom a divine or godlike nature is attributed; an object or a person worshiped as a god.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead.
  • noun. A god or goddess; a heathen god.
  • noun. God, the Supreme Being.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
  • Word Usage
    "Without doubt the term deity was deliberately chosen, for it does not exclude a heathen interpretation."
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