DictionaryRoot: -hede
Middle English

-hede

state or condition of being

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Godhead as divine nature made manifest: a restrained depiction of the Transfiguration, with Jesus radiating light before three awestruck disciples.
noun

godhead

GAHD-hed/ˈɡɑːdhed/

The divine nature or essential being of God.

Etymology

God plus a suffix meaning “state of being” names the condition or nature of being divine. The ending is a surviving form of the suffix also found as -hood.

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