Definition of deity

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Deity (n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works..

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Theanthropism :: Theanthropism (n.) The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism..
Divine :: Divine (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods..
Supplicate :: Supplicate (v. t.) To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity..
Pray :: Pray (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving..
Blasphemy :: Blasphemy (n.) An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity..
Monolatry :: Monolatry (n.) Worship of a single deity.
Jovian :: "Jovian (a.) Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet)..
Godship :: Godship (n.) The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.
Termagant :: Termagant (n.) An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous..
Undergod :: Undergod (n.) A lower or inferio/ god; a subordinate deity; a demigod.
Janus :: "Janus (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace..
Erinys :: Erinys (n.) An avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified..
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Temple :: Temple (n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India..
Genius :: Genius (n.) A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee..
Apollo :: Apollo (n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the sun god), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus..
Deify :: Deify (v. t.) To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified..
Norna :: Norna (n.) A tutelary deity; a genius.
Idea :: Idea (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity..
Woden :: Woden (n.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin..
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