Gods

See also: gods and göds

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒdz/
• (General American) enPR: gŏdz, IPA^(key): /ɡɑdz/
• Rhymes: -ɒdz
• Homophone: gauds (cot–caught merger)

Proper noun

Gods

1. plural of God
2. (obsolete) genitive of God
   • 1597, Hen[ry] Arth[ington], Prouision for the Poore, Now in Penurie. Out of the Store-House of Gods Plentie: […], London: […] Thomas Creede:

     To redreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)

   • 1641 October 18 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Clerum.] A Sermon Preached at a Visitation Holden at Grantham, Lincoln: Octob. 8. 1641.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 12, page 5:

     VVherein I doubt not by Gods help, but to make clear to the judgment of any man, that it is not either uncapable through ignorance, or fore-poſſeſſed with prejudice, theſe three things.

   • 1647, Paul Bayne, An Entire Commentary upon the Whole Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, page 277:

     Let us not leave our fellowship, and estrange our selves from Gods people […] To be discommoned a Town, or for a Citizen to be banished a city, is a great evill: But to be an exile from Gods city, and discommoned from the communion of Saints, this is lamentable indeed.

Anagrams

• dog's, dogs

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Gods

1. (archaic) genitive of God