(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".
Monotheism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this examination no attempt will be made to evaluate Moses and Monotheism for its literary, psychohistorical, or scientific merit.
(2) Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on “graven images”.
(3) "But it builds something you can't respond to: ethics, decency, monotheism and justice," he added in a his speech, which was broadcast live on state TV.
(4) R is for religion "The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism.
(5) Focusing on the abortive subtitle, the core of the paper is a close examination of the original manuscript draft of Moses and Monotheism, completed in 1934.
(6) As the historian Jan Assmann puts it: “Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory.” In the Bible, Moses did not invent monotheism.
(7) Despite Freud's explicit statements on his intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism, there has been a growing tendency to interpret the work as a coded document of his inner life.
(8) Evidence is brough that it is his father, rather than himself, whom Freud identifies with the Moses figure - and the consequences of his identification are used to explain both his obsession with the Moses theme and his seeming digressions into Bible-analysis in "Moses and monotheism".
(9) As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the priviliege of monotheism.
(10) There is a wealth of information about Freud in Moses and Monotheism and no one paper will exhaust it.
(11) Freud's paper is re-examined and placed in biographical and historical context, Moses and monotheism (1934-1938) is treated as a parallel text.
(12) Many writers have commented on the lack of Freud's usual level of logic and powers of persuasion in Moses and Monotheism.