skygod

English

Etymology

From sky +‎ god.

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Noun

skygod (plural skygods)

1. Alternative form of sky god: a god residing in or presiding over the sky.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 15:

     Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.]

2. (slang) A skydiver, especially (approbative) a thoroughly experienced or (derogatory) arrogant one.

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