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godling [god-ling] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a minor god, especially one whose influence or authority is entirely local.
Origin of godling First recorded in 1490–1500; see origin at God, -ling1 Examples from the Web for godling Historical Examples of godling
He looked toward the cot by the fire where the godling snorted.
Rudyard Kipling
In these water is placed for the refreshment of the godling, and they thus resemble the funeral vases of the Greeks.
The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)
W. Crooke
Among the more primitive Gonds the chain has become a godling and is regularly worshipped.
The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)
W. Crooke
The messenger boy who finally brought her expected note, looked to him like a Greek godling.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
We say modest, because on the death of the godling Phton, his father Phoebus withheld his light from the earth a whole day.
Logan Mitchell