deity

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Divine nature

Nouns

1. (nature of God) Deity, Divinity; Godhead, Godship; Omnipotence, Providence; anima mundi.

2. (God's names)

a. God, Lord; Jehovah, Yahweh, Jah, JHVH, Tetragrammaton, Adonai, Elohim, Shaddai, S[h]iva; Supreme Being, First Cause; Author or Creator of all things, Maker; the Infinite, the Eternal; the All-powerful, -wise, -merciful, -knowing, or -holy; Allah; God of Abraham, etc.; Ancient of Days, First Cause, Great Spirit, Lord of Hosts, Lord of Sabaoth, the Lord God, King of Heaven; Divine Mind.

b. olorum; Ahura Mazda, Ormazd; Allah, Brahma, Buddha, deva, Great Mother, Indra, kami, Krishna, Mahdi, Rama, Sat Guru, Tathagata, Trimurti, Vishnu, Yama.

3. (attributes) infinite power, omnipotence; infinite wisdom, omniscience; goodness, justice, truth, mercy; omnipresence; unity, immutability, holiness, glory, majesty, sovereignty, infinity, eternity; redemption, salvation.

4. The Trinity, Holy Trinity, or Trinity in Unity:

a. God the Father, Maker, Creator, or Preserver; creation, preservation, divine government; theocracy, thearchy; Providence, ways or dispensation of Providence.

b. God the Son, Jesus, Christ, the Messiah, Anointed, Savior, Redeemer; the Son of God, Man, or David; the Lamb of God, the Word [Incarnate]; Emmanuel, Immanuel; the King of Kings and King of Glory, Prince of Peace, Good Shepherd, Light of the World, the Incarnation; salvation, redemption, atonement, propitiation, mediation, intercession, judgment.

c. God the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, Paraclete; inspiration, unction, regeneration, sanctification, consolation.

d. special providence, Deus ex machina; avatar.

5. joss. See mythical deities.

Verbs

1. create, uphold, preserve, govern, atone, redeem, save, propitiate, predestinate, elect, call, ordain, bless, justify, sanctify, glorify.

2. deify (see idolatry, repute).

Adjectives — godly, divine; almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial, sacrosanct, superhuman, supernatural; omnipotent, almighty, omnipresent, ubiquitous, omniscient; ghostly, spiritual, hyper-physical, unearthly; theistic, theocratic; anointed; three-in-one, triune.

Adverbs — divinely, by divine right; with the help of God.

Phrases — God helps them that helps themselves; The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere; God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Quotations — With God all things are possible (Bible), He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (Bible), If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him (Voltaire), If God made us in His image, we have certainly returned the compliment (Voltaire), God is subtle, but he is not malicious (Albert Einstein), God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived (St. Anselm), He was a wise man who invented God (Plato), Man proposes, God disposes (Thomas à Kempis).

Antonyms, see humanity, demon.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. divinity, god, goddess, idol; see god 1 , 2 , 3 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

god, goddess, supreme being, idol. see god