Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a god of; raise to the condition of a god.
- transitive verb To worship or revere as a god.
- transitive verb To idealize; exalt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; enroll among the gods.
- To regard as an object of worship; adore or worship as a deity.
- To make godlike; exalt spiritually.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize.
- transitive verb To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard.
- transitive verb To render godlike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make a
god of (something or someone). - verb transitive To treat as
worthy of worship; to regard as adeity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb consider as a god or godlike
- verb exalt to the position of a God
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The story that accompanied the cover shoot did not "deify" the Palins or their choices, nor did it push any sort of policy.
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(changed "deify" to "lionize". not sure atheists are into deifying) '' 'Liberal denial' '' is the tendency of [[liberals]] to conceal, deny or censor the truth for ideological reasons.
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“Wittynamehere,” when you wrote the words “deify the incontinence of the one true word of the almighty,” what did you mean by that?
Think Progress » Paul Broun goes birther: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is an American citizen. 2010
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Pretend that you know something about the Constitution, deify Reagan, whine about radicals, talk like a tough guy, invoke freedom, and repeat.
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Wittynamehear: “We will shout, we will harken, we will deify the incontinence of the one true word of the almighty!”
Think Progress » Paul Broun goes birther: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is an American citizen. 2010
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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.
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A God who doesn't deify man can't have any appeal, whether he exists or not.
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But Reagan's damage was done long ago -- and those who have swallowed the myth whole continue to propagate it, while attempting to deify him.
Marshall Fine: Live from Sundance 2011: Day 4 Marshall Fine 2011
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There is a clear determination to deify these former prisoners.
Guantanamo and Its Critics Robin Simcox 2012
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Do they really need to deify and demean their political opponent at the same time?
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