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/ɡˈɒdlaɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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being or having the nature of a god
'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create
the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers
the divine will
the divine capacity for love -
appropriate to or befitting a god
man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers
a man of godlike sagacity
the divine strength of Achilles
How To Use godlike In A Sentence
- And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
- They were godlike in their wisdom and compassion.
- And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives. The Secular Prophet
- The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it, -- coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! Cape Cod
- Machinery is killing more and more of what we call the godlike in us. The Great Hunger
- Originally, all of these acts were a form of spirituality—of godlikeness. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
- While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
- She sometimes fantasized about getting him to make love to her, but Galatea never really liked her godlike creator, Pygmalion.
- There is a tendency within the medical profession and among patients to view consultants as almost godlike figures.
- Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty.