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

We can imagine deifying different bodies or a wider variety of them; we might even imagine a post-gaze society, where we lust after personality and spirit rather than external appearance.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2018

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 also held by some of the Fathers, who attribute to sanctifying grace both a deifying and a spiritualizing power.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur