Deify Definition

dēə-fī, dā-
deified, deifies, deifying
verb
To make a god of; rank among the gods.
Webster's New World
To look upon or worship as a god.
Webster's New World
To glorify, exalt, or adore in an extreme way; idolize.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Deify

  • Middle English deifien from Old French deifier from Late Latin deificāre from deificus deific deific

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French déifier, from Latin deificāre, from deus (“god”).

    From Wiktionary

Deify Sentence Examples

  • It is very important that you do not deify us.

  • But if it be presupposed that the purpose of Christ's mission was to deify men by bestowing physical immortality, then we must assume, first, Christ's essential Godhead, and, secondly, the fusion of His divine and human natures.

  • All phenomena, moral as well as material, are contemplated by him in their relation to one great organic whole, which he acknowledges under the name of "Natura daedala rerum," and the most beneficent manifestations of which he seems to symbolize and almost to deify in the "Alma Venus," whom, in apparent contradiction to his denial of a divine interference with human affairs, he invokes with prayer in the opening lines of the poem.

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Words Starting With

DDEDEI

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YFYIFY

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