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[ US /ˈdiəˌfaɪ/ ]
[ UK /dˈe‍ɪfa‍ɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. consider as a god or godlike
    These young men deify financial success
  2. exalt to the position of a God
    the people deified their King

How To Use deify In A Sentence

  • The public was fickle, sometimes positively perverse, deciding to deify an unknown against all expectation. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • But to deify Orwell, as many disciples were inclined to do, does him an injustice.
  • Though outlawed and rarely performed, the act is deemed to deify the perpetrator, blessing her family for seven generations after her death.
  • Will to power 1005 says that Schopenhauer, quote: did not understand how to deify the will.
  • I had forgotten that achievements are the miracles of a son that deify the mother. ICED
  • Shakespeare to glorify the name of Cranmer or to deify the names of the queen then dead and the king yet living, it is but natural that he should be induced by an unconscious bias or prepossession of the will to depreciate the worth of the verse sent on work fitter for ushers and embalmers and the general valetry or varletry of Church and State. A Study of Shakespeare
  • Sirota, after attributing my work to different publication than the one in which it appeared, blockquoted three sentences from my 5,000 word piece to accuse me of "deifying white privilege," all the while refusing to name me as the author of the piece. Adele Stan: The Tea Party Movement: A Force to Be Reckoned With
  • It is, in the first place, a polemic against the deifying of the social order, which can happen with or without Hegelian philosophy.
  • You deify your politics and ascribe your political positions as those of your “god” without so much as a hint of biblical basis for your assertion or belief. Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity
  • They hypostatize and deify an abstraction as though it were itself existent and divine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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