- present participle of deify.
deifying
Example Sentences
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“They are not perfect. They are not perfect. We have to stop deifying them,” Mr. Lemon said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
One is a pitch-dark, but also visually cute, animated series that has perfected, by not deifying or lauding, the antihero, who this season was even more explicitly shown to be a #MeToo creep.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2018
“No one would ever confuse me with a saint,” Rick Ledbetter admits after deifying his younger brother, Tommy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
So let’s get to know Jenner as a person, as opposed to deifying her as a plaster saint.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016
It is obvious that this love of God is not the original creation of the lover, as is the deifying love of woman, but the mystic love whose self-evident object is God or eternity.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
