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godding

godding is the present participle and gerund of god.

Meaning of god

Verb

god (third-person singular simple present gods, present participle godding, simple past and past participle godded)

  1. (transitive) To idolize.
    • CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, act V, scene III
  2. (transitive) To deify.
    • Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead, / In which so fell and puissant he grew, / That Jove himselfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

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Questions about godding

What is godding the present participle and gerund of?
Godding is the present participle and gerund of god.

Words near godding in the dictionary

  1. goddexx
  2. goddexxes
  3. goddidit
  4. goddikin
  5. goddikins
  6. godding
  7. goddish
  8. goddist
  9. goddists
  10. Goddy
  11. Godeanu

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