deity

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noun, plural de·i·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.

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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 su·per·de·i·ties.

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deity (ˈdeɪtɪ, ˈdiːɪ-)

—n , pl -ties
1.	a god or goddess
2.	the state of being divine; godhead
3.	the rank, status, or position of a god
4.	the nature or character of God

[C14: from Old French, from Late Latin deitās, from Latin deus god]

Deity (ˈdeɪtɪ, ˈdiːɪ-)

—n
	the Deity the Supreme Being; God

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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).

Example sentences

And no-one should ever be called upon to declare which deity he or she worships.

Most people will fall into one of two categories, those that believe in a deity

or deities, and those that do not.

He is not a wandering deity, but belongs to these mountains.

He is referring to the temperamental deity above his village.

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"The form of act or thought mattered nothing. The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of to-day, were all emanation of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends."

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