degod

present singular third person degods · participle present degodding · participle past degodded · past degodded

1. transitiveTo ungod, to divest of a god.
2. transitiveTo ungod, to divest of godly powers, to strip of divinity.

   Proposals to scrap the imperial institution or to force an abdication were resisted by the occupation authorities, who saw how vital the Emperor would be for Japan's regeneration. Instead, he volunteered a ‘denial of divinity’ or, as the Americans put it, ‘degodded himself’, on New Year's Day 1946.

   1989, Peter Tasker, The Japanese: Portrait of a Nation, New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN, page 143