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atua
/ ˈɑːtuːə /
noun
- a spirit or demon
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Word History and Origins
Origin of atua1
Māori
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Example Sentences
Yet the word Atua denotes gods who are recognised as ghosts of chiefs, no less than it denotes the supreme existence.
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The white man's God they believe to be altogether a different being from their own atua.
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When this was done it was taken possession of by the Atua, whose spirit entered it.
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On the morrow of the fight at Vaitele, an Atua man discovered a body lying in the bush: he took the head.
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With Atua, the other disaffected province, we have been and are on the brink of 406 war.
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