God — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in gods and goddesses.

   Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue

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   God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

   ...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...

   The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.

   This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help — and God's.

   He (n.b.: a Muslim) has told me that he will not allow one person’s actions to stop him from praying to his God.

   All this will culminate in a final showdown in Israel between the true Lord (Jehovah) God of Israel and the false god (Allah) of Mecca (the center of pagan idolatry in Arabia, at the Kaaba) […]

2. The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism. God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Synonyms

   god

   Examples

   God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.

3. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.

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   This reduces the successful invocation of God to a function of the presence of male genitalia. Put another way, women have the wrong equipment to invoke God. Goddess and God flow throughout all of nature, through each and every man and woman, becoming fully present in the world.

   God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased.

4. The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.

   For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself.

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   Now, if night, winter, hunger, and war, which describe the God’s appearance as the multiple world, are his ‘scents’ and ‘names’, the same must be true of the world’s several constituents: all created things are just transient ‘scents’, and their names misnomers, of the fiery God.

Noun

1. A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.

   Examples

   A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.

   The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.

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   Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.

   Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!