different between ungod vs ungot

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???d/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To divest of a god; to atheize.
2. (transitive) To divest of godly powers; to strip of divinity.
   • 2008, Matt Kimmich, Offspring Fictions: Salman Rushdie's Family Novels

     Perhaps Saladin's "ungodding" of his father is a necessary first step for the male child's emancipation...

Noun

ungod (plural ungods)

1. A false god; an idol
   • 2008, Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses:

     They provoked Me with an ungod, they vexed Me with their empty things.

   • 2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ:

     [...] 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).

   • 2015, M.P. Joseph, Theologies of the Non-Person:

     The god of cult is an ungod, because the god of cult represents a god molded in the image of the worshippers and created to satisfy their innate ambitions and it is likewise with the god of dogma, which is a reified form of idolatry.

   • 2016, Tanith Lee, No Flame But Mine:

     He had not blinked, Curjai noted, not once in many minutes. Perhaps not since he had come to out there in the snow. 'When you – recovered, what did you think had happened to you?' 'I know what happened. One of your local gler ungods struck me, turned me to ice. Death. I didn't want to go. It was wrong.'

Anagrams

• Duong, gound, undog

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ung?d. Equivalent to un- (“un-”) +? g?d (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?un??o?d/

Adjective

ung?d

1. not good, bad

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ungode, vngood
  • English: ungood

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “ungód”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Duong, gound, undog

English

Etymology

un- +? got

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???t/

Adjective

ungot (not comparable)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Not begotten.
   • c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero Light

     his loins yet full of ungot princes

2. Not acquired; ungotten.

Related terms

• ungotten

Anagrams

• toung

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u?ngót
• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

ungót

1. a whine