Godlike
['gɒdlaɪk] or ['ɡɑdlaɪk]
Definition
(a.) Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Divine, heavenly, supernal, celestial.
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Examples
- This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He, the man, could interpose a perfect, changeless, godlike medium between himself and the Matter he had to subjugate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They were exalted by belonging to this great and superhuman system which was beyond feeling or reason, something really godlike. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There could be naught of cruelty or baseness beneath that godlike exterior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Achilles, perhaps, observed the Rector, fascinated by the clear-cut features of the young man,—the godlike Achilles. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There was about him a curious, and almost godlike air of simplicity and native directness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yes, he said, and he also praises tyranny as godlike; and many other things of the same kind are said by him and by the other poets. Plato. The Republic.
- He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle, and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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