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• ex-god

語源

ex- +‎ god

名詞

exgod (複数形 exgods)

1. One who was formerly a god or revered as such.
   • 1911, G. Stanley Hall, Educational Problems, Volume II, D. Appleton and Company (1911), page 46:

     A tribe subjected by a stronger one often feels that its own gods are weaker, and so they are discredited, and that those of its conquerors are mighty and so they prevail. Occasionally vistors^[sic] seem to cherish rancor against the religion of their victims, and hence many devils are really exgods, thus degraded.

   • 1998, Olympus (eds. Martin H. Greenberg & Bruce D. Arthurs), Daw (1998), →ISBN, page 311:

     When next I looked up, there was another exgod at the desk. An older guy. In a toga, his hair and beard long-curled and oiled. Holy mud, it could have been Poseidon, himself . . . but was not.

   • 2010, Scott Mebus, The Sorcerer's Secret, Puffin Books (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Hex laughed and Rory started, realizing he'd been dropping his guard with the traitorous exgod.

Further reading

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