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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{suffix|en|god|ship}}.

===Noun===
{{en-noun|-|s}}

# {{syn of|en|divinity|nodot=a}}: the [[state]], [[position]], or [[fact]] of [[being]] a [[god]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1592|author=Lancelot Andrewes|title=Wonderfull Combate|section=vi, f. 78v
|passage=Because there was a '''Godship''', a higher degree than hers, she was not content.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 4 2003|journal=New Yorker|page=79
|passage=Emerson's vision of man coming into his '''godship''' through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.}}
# {{lb|en|jocular|with 'his', 'her', 'your', etc.}} {{n-g|A [[term of address]] to a [[deity]].}}
#* '''1533''', Thomas Heywood, ''The Play of the Wether'', sig. Bii:
#*: [[if|Yf]] it please your [[gracious|gracyous]] '''godshyp'''.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1994|author=Dustin Griffin|title=Satire|page=86
|passage=The gods, addressed without ceremony in {{w|Juvenal}} as ''vos''... become ‘Your '''Godships'''’.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-see|divinity}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=dghiops|dogship}}