English

Verb

ungod ‎(third-person singular simple present ungods, present participle ungodding, simple past and past participle ungodded)

1. (transitive) To divest of a god; to atheize.
   • 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther

     Thus men ungodded may to places rise, / And sects may be preferr'd without disguise: / No danger to the church or state from these; / The Papist only has his writ of ease.

2. (transitive) To divest of godly powers; to strip of divinity.
   • 1830, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter

     He that would have another god, would have the Lord to be ungodded, and to lose his sovereign power and goodness!

   • 2008, Matt Kimmich, Offspring Fictions: Salman Rushdie's Family Novels

     Perhaps Saladin's "ungodding" of his father is a necessary first step for the male child's emancipation...

Noun

ungod ‎(plural ungods)

1. A false god; an idol
   • 2008, Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses:

     They provoked Me with an ungod, they vexed Me with their empty things.

   • 2011, Slavoj Žižek, ‎John Milbank, ‎Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ:

     [...] it isn't that Godhead “isn't God,” it's that Godhead is a non-God, an “Ungod” (in the same sense as we talk of the “undead” who are neither living or dead, but the living dead).

   • 2015, M.P. Joseph, Theologies of the Non-Person:

     The god of cult is an ungod, because the god of cult represents a god molded in the image of the worshippers and created to satisfy their innate ambitions and it is likewise with the god of dogma, which is a reified form of idolatry.

   • 2016, Tanith Lee, No Flame But Mine:

     He had not blinked, Curjai noted, not once in many minutes. Perhaps not since he had come to out there in the snow. 'When you – recovered, what did you think had happened to you?' 'I know what happened. One of your local gler ungods struck me, turned me to ice. Death. I didn't want to go. It was wrong.'