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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

Julius Caesar seems to have intended to be worshiped as a god in his lifetime, and later emperors may have been aware of this plan because many routinely pushed for deification during their own reigns.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Wang Keping’s sculpture “Idol” uses some canny detailing to turn a likeness of Mao into that of the Buddha, quietly excoriating the leader’s deification.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

And in Plotinus and Proclus the deification of mere reason is at any rate the dominant note; whatever protests the larger Greek nature in the former may from time to time offer.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich




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