Allfather
English
Proper noun
Allfather
- Alternative form of All-Father
- 1878, Wilhelm Zimmermann, A Popular History of Germany:
- Allfather, the father of gods and men, the one God, is the one who, like the Hellenic Zeus, orders destiny according to his everlasting laws.
Noun
Allfather (plural Allfathers)
- Alternative form of All-Father
- 1882, John Torrey Morse (Jr.), Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert Percival Porter, The International Review - Volume 12, page 574:
- We shall keep our God, but he will be an Allfather, and not an all-but-All-tormentor.
- 1907, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London:
- The suggestion of a belief in an Allfather has however been challenged with much force by Mr. Hartland,” but has been adopted by Mrs. Parker in her work on the Euahlayi tribe.
- 1985, Roger Pearson, Anthropological Glossary, page 7:
- The Indo-European belief in an 'Allfather' may have inspired the Christian concept of 'Our Father in Heaven'.
Anagrams
- earthfall