Ungod

/ʌnˈɡɒd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, of believers) To divest of a god..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, of believers) To divest of a god.
2. (transitive, of a deity) To divest of godly powers; to strip of divinity.
3. A false god; an idol

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: atheize, agnosticize, secularize

Thus men ungodded may to places rise, / And sects may be preferr'd without disguise: / No danger to the church or state from these; / The Papist only has his writ of ease.

He that would have another god, would have the Lord to be ungodded, and to lose his sovereign power and goodness!

Perhaps Saladin's "ungodding" of his father is a necessary first step for the male child's emancipation...

They provoked Me with an ungod, they vexed Me with their empty things.

[...] it isn't that Godhead “isn't God,” it's that Godhead is a non-God, an “Ungod” (in the same sense as we talk of the “undead” who are neither living or dead, but the living dead).

The god of cult is an ungod, because the god of cult represents a god molded in the image of the worshippers and created to satisfy their innate ambitions and it is likewise with the god of dogma, which is a reified form of idolatry.

He had not blinked, Curjai noted, not once in many minutes. Perhaps not since he had come to out there in the snow. 'When you – recovered, what did you think had happened to you?' 'I know what happened. One of your local gler ungods struck me, turned me to ice. Death. I didn't want to go. It was wrong.'

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• ungods
• ungodding
• ungodded

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