deus
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- noun
- /deɪəs/
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dios
- "There have been no deus ex machina in this girl's life.
- deus ex machina
- deus ex
But it represents a certain conception of Deus, of God, right?
- But it represents a certain conception of Deus, of God, right?
- So they go back to the Latin and decide to use the term Deus, which in Japanese becomes deuso, or the great lie.
- In Kleena Cormeum Deus, he says once again, right?
Examples
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But it represents a certain conception of Deus, of God, right?
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This didn't involve the deus and actually made sense in the world of Supernatural.
Blog text (22) -
So they go back to the Latin and decide to use the term Deus, which in Japanese becomes deuso, or the great lie.
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In Kleena Cormeum Deus, he says once again, right?
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We also start to find inscriptions and this one here says Plura Facet Deus, many of the things done by God.
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As an operator who, through effects of naturalism, created enlivened things, the artist became a kind of magician, an alter deus.
Academic text (2002) -
They were shouting and beating on the sides of the machine, and laughing, looking for all the world like demented gods on a terrible deus ex machina.
Fiction book (1998) -
As he leaves this space where he has spent the previous scene as a parodic deus absconditus, Orgon emerges into the light of theatrical, bodily presence.
Academic text (1990) -
She was pregnant by someone who never appeared but whose presence was always felt, like a kind of deus mysteriosus, and she lived with an old Mexican who had been with Cesar Chavez in Bakersfield and was disillusioned.
Fiction book (1994) -
In ancient Rome, Jupiter was considered the chief deus of their pantheon.
Synonyms
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A god or goddess that people worship and think has power over part of the world
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An object or image that people worship and treat as having power
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A being that people believe created the world and rules it
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A god worshipped as controlling a part of nature
Compounds
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An unexpected event or person that suddenly fixes a hopeless situation in a story
How Powerful
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Deus is the old Latin word for 'god'. It is the root of English words like deity and divine, so it points to a god or something 'godlike'.