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US
/ˌdiəfəˈkeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /dˌeɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌeɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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an embodiment of the qualities of a god
the capitalists' deification of capital - the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
- the condition of being treated like a god
How To Use deification In A Sentence
- Secular, it opposed deification of any kind, including of a leader like Mao Zedong.
- An important achievement of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union lies in the fact that it showed us what serious consequences can follow from deification of an individual.
- Drawing upon primarily Western theological sources, Augustine and Aquinas each offer a doctrine of deification that is distinct from Eastern conceptions.
- Making sense of his status as a postmodern social icon is as difficult as understanding his posthumous deification by millions of fans.
- Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
- For the same reason , our party abhors the deification of an individual.
- They superimposed astrology, the use of the zodiac, and the deification of the four seasons onto the Persian rites of Mithraism.
- Yeats refers to the concepts, in his treatises, of earthly and celestial hierarchies and of a ‘Mystical Theology’, through which knowledge of God and the progressive deification of man may be attained by a process of Neoplatonic abstraction. Later Articles and Reviews
- the capitalists' deification of capital
- Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
