Godhead Meaning
/ˈɡɒd.hɛd/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounDivinity or godhood, divine essence or nature.
nameThe Trinity.
Sentence Examples
Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctrine describes the ____ as three persons in one.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In some religions, the term ____ is used to refer to the essential nature or essence of the divine being.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English Godhede, equivalent to God + -head (“-hood”). Doublet of godhead.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"House and tenant go to ground, / Lost in God, in Godhead found."
— 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 249:
"For the inuisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearely seene, being vnderstood by the things that are made, euen his eternall Power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse:"
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 1:20:
"It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men. As compared with the Indians he had known, they were to him another race of beings, a race of superior gods. They impressed him as possessing superior power, and it is on power that god-head rests."
— 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter 1, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 4 (The Superior Gods), page 195:
"For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Colossians 2:9:
"when at the holy mount / Of Heav'ns high-ſeated top, th' Impereal Throne / Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and ſure,"
— 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 584–586:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctrine describes the ____ as three persons in one.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In some religions, the term ____ is used to refer to the essential nature or essence of the divine being.