exgod
See also: ex-god
English
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Noun
exgod (plural exgods)
- One who was formerly a god or revered as such.
- 1911, G. Stanley Hall, Educational Problems, Volume II, D. Appleton and Company (1911), page 46:
- A tribe subjected by a stronger one often feels that its own gods are weaker, and so they are discredited, and that those of its conquerors are mighty and so they prevail. Occasionally vistors[sic] seem to cherish rancor against the religion of their victims, and hence many devils are really exgods, thus degraded.
- 1998, Olympus (eds. Martin H. Greenberg & Bruce D. Arthurs), Daw (1998), →ISBN, page 311:
- When next I looked up, there was another exgod at the desk. An older guy. In a toga, his hair and beard long-curled and oiled. Holy mud, it could have been Poseidon, himself . . . but was not.
- 2010, Scott Mebus, The Sorcerer's Secret, Puffin Books (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Hex laughed and Rory started, realizing he'd been dropping his guard with the traitorous exgod.
- 1911, G. Stanley Hall, Educational Problems, Volume II, D. Appleton and Company (1911), page 46:
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