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ungod

UK/ʌnˈɡɒd/

ungod verb: to divest of a god.

Verb

ungod (third-person singular simple present ungods, present participle ungodding, simple past and past participle ungodded)

  1. (transitive) To divest of a god.
    • Near-synonyms: atheize, agnosticize, secularize
    • Thus men ungodded may to places rise, / And sects may be preferr'd without disguise: / No danger to the church or state from these; / The Papist only has his writ of ease.1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther
  2. (transitive) To divest of godly powers; to strip of divinity.
    • He that would have another god, would have the Lord to be ungodded, and to lose his sovereign power and goodness!1830, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter
    • Perhaps Saladin's "ungodding" of his father is a necessary first step for the male child's emancipation...2008, Matt Kimmich, Offspring Fictions: Salman Rushdie's Family Novels

Noun

ungod (plural ungods)

  1. A false god; an idol
    • They provoked Me with an ungod, they vexed Me with their empty things.2008, Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses
    • [...] it isn't that Godhead “isn't God,” it's that Godhead is a non-God, an “Ungod” (in the same sense as we talk of the “undead” who are neither living or dead, but the living dead).2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ

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Forms of ungod

Verb
third-person singular presentungods
present participleungodding
past participleungodded
pastungodded
Noun
pluralungods

Origin of ungod

From un- + god. Compare Dutch ontgoden, German entgöttern.

Questions about ungod

What does ungod mean?
Ungod means to divest of a god.
What part of speech is ungod?
Ungod can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce ungod?
Ungod is pronounced /ʌnˈɡɒd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of ungod?
The past tense of ungod is ungodded.

Words near ungod in the dictionary

  1. ungnawn
  2. ungnostic
  3. ungoaded
  4. ungoatlike
  5. ungobbled
  6. ungod
  7. ungodded
  8. ungodding
  9. ungodlier
  10. ungodliest
  11. ungodlike

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