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deity
/ˈdi.ə.ti/
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What does deity mean?
noun
- Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
- A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.
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M. A---- is a sectary of the goddess Reason, of whom he has made a Moloch, an oppressive deity hungry for sacrifice.
The Deity represented by a woman and a serpent involved the idea not alone of good, but of good and evil combined.
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It is purely a religious ceremony, an elaborate supplication for rain, and is designed to propitiate the water god or snake deity.
From time immemorial the dweller on the Nile has been led to regard his river in the light of a benignant deity.
Perhaps the most important conception which the works of Empedocles reveal to us is the denial of anthropomorphism as applied to deity.