(n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.
(n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.
(n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.
(n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.
(v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(4) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(5) If you can get through them, then you are considered a god in the world of cold calling.
(6) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
(7) The characters in the film realise that the “gods are not coming to save us”, he said.
(8) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(9) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(10) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
(11) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(13) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(14) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
(15) OH MY GOD, I just looked it up online,” she wrote.
(16) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(17) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(18) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
(19) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(20) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
Jah
Definition:
(n.) Jehovah.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia bombards us and kills our neighbours.” Gummai Esmail Moshasha’s thatched hut in al-Jah, in the Tihama area of al-Hudaydah, was targeted on 12 January.
(2) Africa Stop Ebola was recorded before the release of Sir Bob’s third rehash of the charity single , and includes well-known African musicians such as Tiken Jah Fakoly from the Ivory Coast and Malian artists Amadou and Mariam, Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare.
(3) To Jah I give thanks, collect my banks, listen to Shabba Ranks,” runs a typically upbeat line on Jazz (We’ve Got) from 1991’s Low End Theory, his first album as a full member.
(4) The song, Africa Stop Ebola, features contributions from the Malian musicians Amadou & Mariam , Salif Keita , Oumou Sangaré and Kandia Kouyaté , the Guinean singers Mory Kante and Sia Tolno , the Ivorian reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly , the Congolese vocalist Barbara Kanam and the Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi .
(5) Most he has spent on a record: £450, on Praise-Jah by Oluko Imo – a disco-reggae album.
(6) She talks about her biological father, Ahmadu Jah, who has so far been overshadowed by Don in the Cherry narrative.
(7) The Norwegians, singing 13th, scored no marks at all, for a very gentle ditty that sounded like, "By gum, jah no high dog", but apparently meant, "Never in my life will I think of leaving until I join the wind."
(8) It was found that before treatment adolescents with JAH showed a clear increase of the angiotensin, testosterone and plasma renin activity (PRA).
(9) Examined were 140 adolescents with juvenile arterial hypertension (JAH) and 54 healthy adolescents (age: 15-19 years).