ex-god

A form of exgod — One who was formerly a god or revered as such.

Meanings

nounex-god (plural ex-gods)

plural ex-gods

  1. alternativeAlternative form of exgod.

    […] an ex-god who's now mortal (Kinich); a human who's now a god with no dang clue about her mortality status and is pregnant with the ex-god's baby (that one is me, in case you were wondering); […]

    2012, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Sun God Seeks…Surrogate?, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN
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    A sound like the screeching blast of a dozen fumaroles split the air as the enraged ex-god countered with a clawing combination of strokes that pushed the demon backward with their ferocity into his own troops.

    2006, Wayne Barlowe, God's Demon, Tor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 269

    The Aalim have always been around—after all, there's no escape from the Past, the Present, and the Future, is there?—but for a long time they left the management of things to the gods of the period, the same ex-gods you see here, inefficient deities who didn't always do such a good job.

    2010, Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 141

Origin

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