supreme being

See also: Supreme Being

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supreme being (plural supreme beings)

  1. A god, or a similar deity, characterized by power over all things.
    Near-synonym: overdeity
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 205:
      And so when they led her from her dungeon, through long, dark corridors, and up a flight of concrete steps to a brilliant courtyard, she went willingly, even gladly—for was she not among the servants of God? It might be, of course, that their interpretation of the supreme being differed from her own, but that they owned a god was sufficient evidence to her that they were kind and good.

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