different between godship vs godhead

English

Etymology

From god +? -ship.

Noun

godship (usually uncountable, plural godships)

1. (humorous, with 'his', 'her', 'your', &c.) A term of address to a deity.
   • 1533, Thomas Heywood, The Play of the Wether, sig. Bii:

     Yf it please your gracyous godshyp.

   • 1994, Dustin Griffin, Satire, p. 86:

     The gods, addressed without ceremony in Juvenal as vos... become ‘Your Godships’.

2. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.
   • 1592, Lancelot Andrewes, Wonderfull Combate, vi, f. 78v:

     Because there was a Godship, a higher degree than hers, she was not content.

   • 2003 August 4, New Yorker, p. 79:

     Emerson's vision of man coming into his godship through the conquest of nature reads suspiciously like an apology for westward expansion.

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• dogship

English

Etymology

From Middle English godhede, equivalent to god +? -head (“-hood”). First attested in the Ancrene Riwle (ca. 1225); compare godhood and Dutch godheid as well as German Gottheit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d.h?d/

Noun

godhead (countable and uncountable, plural godheads)

1. Divinity or godhood, divine essence or nature.

2. God.

3. (rare) Any deity or idol.
4. An admired or influential person or entity.

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• doghead