degodとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

degod (三人称単数 現在形 degods, 現在分詞 degodding, 過去形および過去分詞形 degodded)

1. (transitive) To ungod, to divest of a god.
2. (transitive) To ungod, to divest of godly powers, to strip of divinity.
   • 1989, Peter Tasker, The Japanese: Portrait of a Nation, New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN, page 143:

     Proposals to scrap the imperial institution or to force an abdication were resisted by the occupation authorities, who saw how vital the Emperor would be for Japan's regeneration. Instead, he volunteered a ‘denial of divinity’ or, as the Americans put it, ‘degodded himself’, on New Year's Day 1946.