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A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.
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The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.]
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A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man.
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The study of religion or religions.
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A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.
Examples of deity in a Sentence
He was Death, after all, a deity in his own right.
Without the senses of a deity, she was unaware of him.
A bad deal by a deity or its mate will ruin the universe.
As a deity, she had few real emotions.
At least she had the mind of a deity still, the memories and … She froze.
No deity or Immortal or living human ever welcomed or accepted Death, but the souls always had.
As the deity who brought you back from the dead-dead, you are obligated to me, she reminded him.
It was the Deidre, the deity who ruled over Death's domain before turning it over to Gabriel.
In the meantime, Wynn was trapped in a room that felt way too small with the deity he meant to kill instead of the human he almost succeeded in killing.
Was the oldest … deity remaining.
How is a sociopathic deity better at ruling the underworld than a compassionate human? he returned with no heat.
But, if an Immortal or human or deity corners you, and you aren't able to summon me, you need to know how to defend yourself, Darkyn started.
Like every other deity I meet.
A familiar face appeared from the words, the golden-skinned deity she nicknamed Mr. Checkmate the first time they met at the Immortal Sanctuary.
She didn't know what the former deity sensed, but she wasn't going to stick around too long to find out.
Maybe having the former deity as a mate wasn't so bad.
As a deity, it was not so.
She blinked, not registering the deity was behind her until he spoke.
She wiped her face then dressed, too distracted to feel the warmth of a certain deity as he appeared.
It was beyond Wynn's control, but maybe, somehow, another deity was able to save Deidre from Darkyn, who was not likely to be merciful, even to his mate.
You are a deity without a domain or source of power, which means you have nothing I could possibly want, Darkyn said.
I mean, I couldn't leave Hell with any deity powers and um, basically only one of us left.
He wanted to be a deity, and he wanted what he couldn't have.
They'd be completely cut off from either deity in the underworld.
She wasn't an Immortal or deity.
The second most powerful deity and the second most restricted.
Her Gabriel, who spent his life a part of the shadows, radiated the quiet power of a deity that reached her from across the room.
It never sat well with him that those charged with enforcing Death's mission served not out of choice but obligation to the deity that stole their souls.
Unless you're using magic on her, there's no way any woman – Immortal, deity or human – would ever choose to stay with you.
Gabriel guessed the deity considered his work done and was no longer concerned.
Each of the great gods was said to be lord or master of Maat; but from another point of view she " knew no lord or master," and the particular quality of deity was expressed in the phrase anx em maat, " living by Maat," which was applied to the gods of the physical world, the sun and moon, the days and hours, as well as to the divine king.
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day."
To understand in what this dependence consists it is necessary to reinstate another omitted condition of every command proceeding not from the Deity but from a man, which is, that the man who gives the command himself takes part in the event.
He was different than the last deity she'd slept with.
Her skin was prickling the way it did when another deity used magic around her, the fair hair on her arms standing on end.
But I want to be the first demon to taste a deity.
She'd never felt pain as a deity.
When I was reincarnated, the human I created became the only deity's mate without a deity.
I'm a former deity.
I know what you were capable of as a deity.
You'll pay for it later, Death, came the deity's amused response.
The deity you were in a past life started the chain of events that put us here by breaking laws from the time-before-time.
And you're a deity?
She wished she had a moment to talk to Gabriel, the deity charged with protecting the dead, to make sure she wasn't doing something wrong.
Deidre took a deep breath and faced the deity previously known as Death.
Kris didn't answer, not wanting to think of how that conversation would go with the deity. He tested his power again. Kiki was right; they had none.
The deity revealed himself in a new name, Yahweh, and with signs and wonders fortified Moses for his task.
Ceremonies of initiation are the means by which the alliance is established between the deity and the young man, when the latter enters upon the rights of manhood; and the supposed bond of kinship is thus regarded as an artificial union from the outset, so far as the individual is concerned, although Robertson Smith still maintains the theory of the fatherhood of the god, where it is a question of the origin of the totem-kin.
The Dharm raja succeeds as an incarnation of the deity.
In this temple, however, each cell, instead of being the residence of a monk, is occupied by an image of Parswanath, and over the door, or on the jambs of each, are sculptured scenes from the life of the deity.