Word Meanings - VENUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.

DEIFIER
One who deifies.
GODDESS
1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
DEIFICATION
The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
DEIFIC; DEIFICAL
Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. "A deifical communion." Homilies.
BEAUTY
biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color
DEIFIED
Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.
SEA GODDESS
A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
DEMIGODDESS
A female demigod.