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deity

/dee-i-tee/US // ˈdi ɪ ti //UK // (ˈdeɪtɪ, ˈdiːɪ-) //

神明,神灵,神性,神仙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural de·i·ties.

    • : a god or goddess.
    • : divine character or nature, especially that of the Supreme Being; divinity.
    • : the estate or rank of a god: The king attained deity after his death.
    • : a person or thing revered as a god or goddess: a society in which money is the only deity.
    • : the Deity, God; Supreme Being.

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Examples

  • Dissections of her politics aside, Didion will forever be a certain type of person’s idea of a deity—the literary, the cool.

  • Martin didn’t hear from any deities, but plenty of other trippers have.

  • Maintaining enough of a belief in the mechanics of the universe to entrust your life to them — something we all do all the time — seems like solid footing, not on the same level as trusting in an unseen deity or other spirits.

  • These actions tended to follow the same pattern across participants, such as holding an oil lamp or incense stick and moving it slowly clockwise before the statue of a deity.

  • To that end, Raijin is the deity of thunder and lightning who unleashes his tempests with wielding of his hammer and beating of drums.

  • Beyoncé has, for close to a decade now, been a deity in entertainment: untouchable, successful, divine.

  • For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.

  • Logistics wins the day, and the Supreme Deity is, at this juncture, nowhere to be seen.

  • In the background, outside, is Papa Legba, who is a Loa, the word for a Voodoo deity.

  • Meanwhile our movie theaters have become temples for superheroes—in the absence of God, Hollywood has offered us a new deity.

  • In short, he is the creature of this 'Joss'—this home-made deity—to which he bows down and worships.

  • This is their great mistake, and arises from a misconception of the character and ways of Deity.

  • It was the case in Peru, where the Inca was the direct representative on earth of the solar deity.

  • In fact, the highest of these claims, that of the existence of a deity, must lie forever beyond its reach.

  • Origen, Ambrose, and Augustine unite in prohibiting the representation of the Deity by any material object.