godhead

Example Sentences

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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

Martin, the godhead of the “Thrones” universe, has suggested, which is that the end of the saga will be bittersweet.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 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

Philosophy did not depend upon the supernatural, and ethics did not require a godhead to be worth discussing – a discussion that can be traced back at least as far as Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2016

Raleigh: You know that each country has had a godhead.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander