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deities

[dee-i-tee]

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noun, plural -ties.

a god or goddess.

divine character or nature, especially that of the Supreme Being; divinity.

the estate or rank of a god: The king attained deity after his death.

a person or thing revered as a god or goddess: a society in which money is the only deity.

the Deity, God; Supreme Being.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English deite < Old French < Late Latin deitāt- (stem of deitās), equivalent to Latin dei- (combining form of deus god) + -tāt- -ty, formed after Latin dīvīnitās divinity

Related forms

su·per·de·i·ty, noun, plural -ties.

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They climbed barefoot onto scaffolding around the stone towers and poured the water on the towers, and then on the deities.

From an undergraduate point of view, professors are gods and graduate students are minor deities.

How the founders of the regime were exalted and even elevated to be deities is another story.

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They climbed barefoot onto scaffolding around the stone towers and poured the water on the towers, and then on the deities.

From an undergraduate point of view, professors are gods and graduate students are minor deities.

How the founders of the regime were exalted and even elevated to be deities is another story.

Volcanoes are also worshipped by many as the sacred home of deities.

That, in itself, is admittance that there are no deities.

Cylindrical stone seals picture deities in horned headdresses engaged in battle.

They then built a bell and a drum tower, as well as another set of halls devoted to minor deities.

In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

They believe their deities are living things, with the same needs as other beings.

Most notably, it occurs in theaters, as if to say that the performing arts are equivalent to the gold of ancient deities.

Atheism simply means one does not believe in any deities.

Refrain from touching carved deities and from directing the soles of your feet at religious images or worshippers.

The weather deities offered a daylong whiff of spring last week.

In its widest sense atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist.

They stored vital organs in canopic jars that were often capped by stone busts of guardian deities.

Navajos give a more religious interpretation to the origin of sand paintings, believing them to be gifts from the deities.

On the other hand, it took on board many tribal deities on board.

Akhenaten banned ancient festivals and closed temples that had honored other deities for centuries.

Any leftover space was filled with figures of tiny deities.

One has no control of one's life except to pray to the deities and ultimately be led to the final place of eternal rest.

Cool-looking cakes were left at the altar for the deities.

Four deities represent the creation of water, land, sky and paradise.

These deities were worshipped in order to ensure good weather.

It is also applied to statues of deities during worship.

From gilded sculptures of deities to silver filigree chopsticks, this is.

Even for those who do not belive in deities have a belief that they are part of history and in that way have a type of afterlife.

But volcano deities are consistently seen as neutral rather than inherently good or bad.

Early man found his first deities in the rhythms of nature: times for hunting, planting and harvesting and for giving birth.

Objects on display include sculptures of longevity deities and prayer stones.

While it was politic for foreign overlords to adopt local deities and appease the powerful.

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Word Origin & History

deity

c.1300, from O.Fr. deite, from L.L. deitatem (nom. deitas) "divine nature," coined by Augustine from L. deus "god," from PIE *deiwos (see Zeus).

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"There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege."

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