godship
nounEtymology From god + -ship.
1
Usually Synonym 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:
- 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:
2
Humorous, Usually, With 'his' A term of address to a deity.
'her'; 'your'; 'her'; 'your'
- Yf it please your gracyous godshyp.1533, Thomas Heywood, The Play of the Wether, sig. Bii
- The gods, addressed without ceremony in Juvenal as vos... become ‘Your Godships’.1994, Dustin Griffin, Satire, page 86: