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nobodaddy

noun

Etymology

Blend of nobody + daddy; c. 1793, William Blake.

  1. inherited from *dadde✻
  2. formed as daddy — “dad + -y”
  3. compounded as nobodaddy — “nobody + daddy”

Definitions

  1. The anthropomorphic God of Christianity.

    • Likewise, Blake's God is not a Nobodaddy God, the Jehovah of the Bible, who himself was good but created in an evil universe. God and evil in Blake are not individuals but states.
    • Sylvia Plath had a Nobodaddy. Job had a Nobodaddy.
    • Had "ultimate concern" in fact transformed God into little more than a "nobodaddy?" Was this just "merely a familiar form of atheism with a new name?"

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA