All-father

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A supreme being; a god who rules over all others.

    "Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The chief god of a pantheon.
  2. 2
    Odin. Germanic, Norse

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odin

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"Our first lesson is that God is a Father ; the second, that He is an All-Father ; that His Fatherhood is a fact in which others, without any limit perceptible to us, have an equal share with ourselves."

Etymology

Calque of Old Norse Alfǫðr.

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