godlike

"I hesitate to use the word 'godlike,' because it's a little strong, but he really is a mythical figure around here," said Ben Jones, a Penn State student who covers the football team for the blog BlackShoeDiaries.com.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Dave Sheinin 2011

Twisting convulsively, it rolled down into the road under our horses 'feet, -- and there this human form, which some call godlike, writhed and floundered like a severed worm, and disguised itself in blood and dust.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

I dare to assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.

Chapter 1 -- Foreword 1913

I dare to assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.

Chapter 1 1911

I dare assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.

The Voyage of the "Snark" 1906

Machinery is killing more and more of what we call the godlike in us. "

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

I had witnessed an act of magnanimity it would not be impious to call godlike; I felt a need to know the outcome.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

Valentine calls a godlike angel, and of whom the rabbis said, "His name is like unto the name of his Master."

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

My own conviction is, that if a man would but bend his energies to live, if he would but try to be a true, that is, a godlike man, in all his dealings with his fellows,

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

But if any one going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are the farthest off, [343] and by no means near at hand.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840