deity
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deity /ˈdeɪɪti, ˈdiːɪ-/
▶noun (pl. deities)
- 1 a god or goddess (especially in a polytheistic religion).
■ (the Deity) the creator and supreme being.
- 2 divine status, quality, or nature.
– origin ME: from OFr. deite, from eccles. L. deitas, from deus ‘god’.
'deity' also found in these Oxford entries:
adore
- aeon
- avatar
- bhakti
- darshan
- dedicate
- demon
- evoke
- flamen
- God
- goddess
- Gurkha
- houngan
- incarnate
- incarnation
- invocation
- invoke
- Krishnaism
- libation
- mystic
- numen
- offer
- omnipotent
- praise
- pray
- prayer
- sacred
- sacrifice
- sylvan
- tempt
- termagant
- theanthropic
- therianthropic
- theriomorphic
- third eye
- vow
- wheel
- worship
- xoanon
