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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

God & gods
Aphrodite
Apollo
apotheosis
Artemis
Athena
Bacchus
Eros
fate
father
goddess
godlike
Holy Spirit
Jehovah
Jesus Christ
Krishna
lamb
Lamb of Godidiom
lord
the Redeemer
trinity
the Deity
noun[ S ]
 formaluk /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.ti/ us /ˈdiː.ə.t̬i/
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

God & gods
Aphrodite
Apollo
apotheosis
Artemis
Athena
Bacchus
Eros
fate
father
goddess
godlike
Holy Spirit
Jehovah
Jesus Christ
Krishna
lamb
Lamb of Godidiom
lord
the Redeemer
trinity

Examples from literature

For the Deity, who embraces all true being, and a knowledge of whom alone makes salvation possible, is only known in proportion as he reveals himself. 
Now, this is brought before us in the text in this one fact, that man has been made a habitation of the Deity—"I dwell with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit." 
Peace on Earth, the Deity's Good Will! 
That the Deity, who himself must be supposed to feel love and affection for the beings he has called into existence, should delegate a portion of those powers, I for one cannot conceive altogether so wrong a conjecture. 

deity | American Dictionary

deity
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdi·ɪ·t̬i, ˈdeɪ-/
a god:
Zeus was an ancient Greek deity.
The Deity is God.

Examples of deity

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So, if it can be the case that a deity's activity cannot account for worlds' moral differences, (7a) is false.
An aedicule was originally the architecture of the small shrine, a miniature temple that celebrated the statue of the deity within.
In it, twelve dancers, dressed as twelve princes, danced in imitation of the deities, accompanied by songs in their praise.
Then we reference recent research dealing with cloth as costume that signifies ethnic and gender identity, and ideological associations with female deities.
They have malevolent and predatory deities as well as more benevolent and protective ones.
I was initially puzzled to discover that songs to highland swidden deities had been incorporated into a regular lowland domestic rite.
This ambiguity comes over even more clearly when we consider the specialists' and critics' views on deities.
The connections to deities enhanced supernatural ties and ideological power.
It evoked the most powerful agrarian symbols such as maize and rain deities to represent central authority through ritual reenactments.
But ethnographic reports indicate that malevolent and predatory deities are as culturally widespread, historically ancient, and socially supreme as benevolent deities.
A third method was rhetorically to use epithets that were appropriate to a deity, thus associating with the divine being.
It is replete with deities, but is not a place of worship where the faithful enact a fixed set of rituals.
Even heroes who are raised within an existing religious tradition and know its teachings well are still surprised by their deities.
I have shown, for instance, that there are examples of one deity substituting for another, and others in which two figures may be conflated.
The lowest image is a usually a deity representing earth; in this case, a long-nosed tapir is portrayed.
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Collocations withdeity

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These are words often used in combination with deity.

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female deity
Over time, he seems to have developed into a femaledeity.
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