(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".
Unitarian
Definition:
(n.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
(n.) One who rejects the principle of dualism.
(n.) A monotheist.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(2) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(3) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(4) Burton and Taylor were married in March 1964 by a Unitarian minister at the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal.
(5) The Unitarians and United Church of Christ are also reportedly divesting.
(6) "As the Japan manager is a devout Unitarian I wondered if religious beliefs influence tatics," writes Ian Copestake.
(7) Human colorectal epithelium is composed mainly of columnar, mucous and endocrine cells; origin of these cell lineages from a multi-potential stem cell at the base of the crypt (the Unitarian hypothesis) has been proposed but not yet demonstrated.
(8) The author speaks of physiatrization of rehabilitation and draws attention to the multidimensional approach, whereby he also pays attention to the unitarian aspect of the concept of disease.
(9) My first foster home was with a Unitarian minister and his wife.
(10) The Federation has a unitarian character in Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Switzerland whereas there are several Federations in France and Belgium.
(11) A small number of churches – the Unitarians, Quakers, and Jewish liberals – would like to administer same-sex marriages.
(12) This simple review advises caution when composing historical positions to a unitarian concept of positive and negative psychoses.
(13) The idea that Shedden lost because she didn’t make a chocolate mosque would only hold water had she been in competition with other cakes that had also been baked into the shape of culturally, socially or politically significant icons, saturated with meanings designed to appeal to the liberally biased judges of Platell’s fecund imagination; ie a sponge Unitarian chapel, a meringue women’s refuge, a fudge abortion clinic, or an icing sugar Tom Daley.
(14) Contrary to the unitarian concept of acrokeratosis verruciformis and Darier's disease, a comparative familial, clinical and histopathological analysis of six cases each of these two diseases has suggested that they are separate entities.
(15) An unitarian conception of the ovulatory mechanisms, based on the fact that coital-induced ovulation and estrogen-induced ovulation could occur in spontaneous and reflex ovulators respectively, has been proposed.
(16) Religious groups that wish to opt in to holding same-sex ceremonies include the Unitarian and Quaker churches, but Miller said individual church ministers in such churches would be free to opt out.
(17) The present study supports the unitarian theory that neuroendocrine cells in the gastrointestinal mucosa are of endodermal origin.
(18) This unitarian heuristic concept of the monoaminergic psychoses would be in better agreement with the classic clinical data concerning this disease (typology intermediate syndromes and crossed heredity).
(19) As interleukin 1 is produced by various cells, it is hypothesized that this molecule may be the "unitarian angiogenic factor."
(20) Such institutions teach hardline unitarian dogmas which, even if they are theoretically non-violent, are certainly intolerant.