deify - use in sentences

Object

  • man: The objective of humanism is to deify man and humanize God.
  • humanity: He may sink so low as to deify humanity and make self his god, but a god of some sort he must have.
  • emperor: The magistrates had to swear by Jupiter, the deified Emperors and by whatever gods were worshiped locally.
  • ruler: Such it appears was a widespread ancient conception of the role of the daystar in the resurrection of deified rulers.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: It is very important that you do not deify us.
  • virtually: The cognitive aspects of human knowledge were virtually deified by the Enlightenment.

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