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deification

[dee-uh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌdi ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


NOUN
glorification
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Sidestepping the deification of his subject, Mr. O’Meara humanizes Prefontaine in his vexing contradictions, buoyant spirit and brutal competitiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2025

The deification of our jazz dead is stunning to behold that way.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

Kowalski skillfully evades highway cops, nonchalantly accepts his deification by a rhapsodic radio D.J. named Super Soul, and befriends a succession of slender hippie-ish blondes.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

The process of deification had become so routine among later emperors that when the emperor Vespasian was dying, he is reported to have said, “Alas! I think I am becoming a god!”

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Egō′ity, the essential element of the ego; E′gōtheism, the deification of self.—v.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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