Sentence examples for deity from inspiring English sources

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deity

noun

The state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.

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I became his noble valet, reduced to even greater humiliations, and even now I am reduced to verbal automatism in thrall to his deity.

12 Kellogg; Insead; Saïd; Wharton; Sloan; IMD; Haas? 13 Abhors; biopsy; chintz; deity; empty; forty; ghost?

My breath is taken away by the building, rather than by the thought of the deity to which it was dedicated.

Maradona himself had been fouled 48 times but was never going to get any sympathy because people remembered his crafty handball against the Soviet Union in Naples and had grown weary of the agonising, the grimaces and the constant appeals to the Deity.

Devil worshippers have no legal protection if they are offended by a reference to a deity at a public prayer.

Plenty of ink is spilled over the significance of Atenism, a religion established under Akhenaten, which defined Aten (the sun) as the supreme deity, and marked an important shift from polytheism to monotheism.The bust of Nefertiti is the inevitable centrepiece of the show, not only for its beauty but also because it is so contentious.

Some are spiritualists: they worship Satan as a deity.

Yet as it happens, answering that question involves an erstwhile royal family, a feared deity, armed guards and billions of dollars worth of gold.

On those points, he seems to share the "anti-Darwinist" position of Father Fessio; but he also agrees with Father Coyne that a "God of the gaps" theory which uses a deity to fill in the real or imagined holes in evolutionary science is too small-minded.

Brought up in a family that presents its kings as incarnations of a Hindu deity, surrounded by toadies and addicted to being fawned on at "felicitation" ceremonies, he seems unaware of how lukewarm royalist sentiment has become.

But in the game of playing God, Dr Bodenschatz is bidding fair to achieve the status of a minor deity.

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