God

Interjection

1. Ellipsis of oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.
   • God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!
   • Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down. - 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):

Proper noun

1. The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.
   • Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in gods and goddesses.
   • Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:8:
   • God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:16:

   1. (Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.

      • 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. - 1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378:
2. The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
   • The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess. - 2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133:
   • 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...
   • God and Goddess watched as the finite universe continued to develop into a stable platform to sustain finite life and were pleased. - 2006, Ronald L. Clark, The Grace of Being, page 22:
3. The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
   • 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. - 1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and...
   • For Aristotle, God as the ultimate ground is the being that is responsible for the workings of the rational cosmos, but not for itself. - 2000, Catriona Hanley, Being and God in Aristotle and Heidegger, →ISBN, page 195:
   • 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...

Noun

1. A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.
   • A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare. - 1563, Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv
   • The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God. - 1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158
   • Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice. - 1960 April 25, advertisement in Life, p. 125

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