god·head

(gŏd′hĕd′)

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 godhād : god, god; see god + -hād, -hood.]

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Godhead

(ˈɡɒdˌhɛd)

n (sometimes not capital)

1. (Theology) the essential nature and condition of being God

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the Godhead God

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

God•head

(ˈgɒdˌhɛd)

n.

the essential being or nature of God; the Almighty.

[1200–50]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Godhead - 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

Translations

Gott

divina (natura divina)divinità

godhead

[ˈgɒdhed] N → divinidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Godhead

[ˈgɒdhɛd] n → divinité f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

godhead

[ˈgɒdˌhɛd] n → divinità

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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References in classic literature

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.

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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.

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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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She had sat and listened for two mortal hours while her idol defiled himself and sneered away his godhead. One by one, her illusions had departed.

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He knew the law too well to take it out of Grey Beaver; behind Grey Beaver were a club and godhead. But behind the dogs there was nothing but space, and into this space they flew when White Fang came on the scene, made mad by laughter.

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'"God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines."

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Suppose he should relent And publish Grace to all, on promise made Of new Subjection; with what eyes could we Stand in his presence humble, and receive Strict Laws impos'd, to celebrate his Throne With warbl'd Hymns, and to his Godhead sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while he Lordly sits Our envied Sovran, and his Altar breathes Ambrosial Odours and Ambrosial Flowers, Our servile offerings.

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Do you mean that I do not believe in the godhead of the sun or moon, like other men?

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The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.

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Even before Creation, the "threeness" of God means that there were relationships within the Godhead. When the Bible says "God is love", it is telling us something true of him not only since the Universe was created, but something eternally true about God.

Sermon

His topics include time and the arts, dualities in the spiral of time, sizing up our gods, godhead and the emergence of Western science and technology, and living with God in time.

Shakespeare & Jung - The God in Time: Meditations on Time, God, & Our Value Creating Universe

47 Carnaby Street, the godhead for us spaced out, right on cool cats of the Sgt Pepper generation.

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