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Definition of Lap of the gods
1. Noun. Beyond human control or responsibility. "There is nothing more I can do; it's in the lap of the gods now"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lap Of The Gods
Literary usage of Lap of the gods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1875)
"... the gods can do all things," " these things lie in the lap of the gods," and
which have the tone of common, popular sayings, implied an actual belief ..."
2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"The future that lies upon the lap of the gods must instruct us on our way through
these intricacies of fact and through these dilemmas of explanation. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1921)
"Yet verily these issues lie in the lap of the gods : I too will cast my spear,
and the rest shall Zeus decide. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"Yet we all go on; the colleges and universities all go on the usual way, as if
the whole situation were out of our hands and on the lap of the gods for ..."
5. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1883)
"... God at ihe very head of the world's management, leaving those weird-women
merely to make known his mandates. The future lies on the lap of the gods, ..."
6. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"... in rekindling the spark of hope in this sodden soul, in restoring the delinquent
to a life of renewed usefulness, rests on the lap of the gods. ..."
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