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god·head  (gdhd)
n.
1. Divinity; godhood.
2. Godhead
a. The Christian God, especially the Trinity.
b. The essential and divine nature of God, regarded abstractly.
[Middle English godhode, godhede, from Old English godhd : god, god; see god + -hd, -hood.]
Godhead
Noun
the nature and condition of being God
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.godheadGodhead - terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Almighty, Creator, Divine, God Almighty, Lord, Maker, Jehovah
Blessed Trinity, Holy Trinity, Sacred Trinity, Trinity - the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead
hypostasis of Christ, hypostasis - any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united


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The Lady Moon is my lover, My friends are the oceans four, The heavens have roofed me over, And the dawn is my golden door I would liefer follow the condor Or the seagull, soaring from ken, Than bury my godhead yonder In the dust of the whirl of men.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
That wondrous oriental story is now to be rehearsed from the Shaster, which gives us the dread Vishnoo, one of the three persons in the godhead of the Hindoos; gives us this divine Vishnoo himself for our Lord; --Vishnoo, who, by the first of his ten earthly incarnations, has for ever set apart and sanctified the whale.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Saxon kissed the little, red satin Spanish girdle passionately, and wrapped it up in haste, with dewy eyes, abandoning the mystery and godhead of mother and all the strange enigma of living.
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