Pronunciations
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/deɪˈ(j)ɛs/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
A goddess.
Usage- Obsolete
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He does so much magnifie Nature and her actings in all this material world, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joint deess with God in the affairs thereof.
The Hindus "take the bull by the horns" and boldly make "sítlá" (small-pox) a goddess, an incarnation of Bhawáni, deëss of destruction-reproduction.