godship

plural godships

1. uncountableusuallySynonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.

   Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content.

   1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Wonderfull Combate, vi, f. 78v

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   Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.

   2003 August 4, New Yorker, page 79

   Synonyms: divinity

2. humorousuncountableusually'her'; 'your'; 'her'; 'your'A term of address to a deity.

   Yf it please your gracyous godshyp.

   1533, Thomas Heywood, The Play of the Wether, sig. Bii

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   The gods, addressed without ceremony in Juvenal as vos... become ‘Your Godships’.

   1994, Dustin Griffin, Satire, page 86