Both Uses of
deity
in
Bleak House
- Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- He is not long in returning; a few paces ahead of Mercury and a brother deity also powdered and in peach-blossomed smalls, who bear between them a chair in which is an incapable old man.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(deity) god or goddess