godhead

Example Sentences

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This is mankind created in the image of a jealous godhead.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022

To his cult followers, he functions as a type of godhead whom they love and to whom they constantly express devotion.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2020

Bombshell focuses on the events precipitating the fall of the Fox godhead, tracing the expansion of the whisper network of women in the workplace that led to his deposing.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2019

And yet, though Thiel hovers above Wolfe’s narrative like an Oz-like godhead, he is barely a presence in it, except when he’s the recipient of its adulation.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2017

Tiele also remarks that some beasts were promoted to godhead comparatively late, because their names resembled names of gods.***

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew