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These young men deify financial success.deify = treat as a desirable god
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The people deified their King.deified = treated as a god
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She deified science, then poetry, and then returned to belief in God.deified = treated as a desirable god
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The Crake they're praising is his fabrication, a fabrication not unmixed with spite: Crake was against the notion of God, or of gods of any kind, and would surely be disgusted by the spectacle of his own gradual deification.† (source)deification = the act of treating as a god
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In a world of apathy, cynicism, and technological deification, men like the camerlegno, realists who could speak to our souls like this man just had, were the church's only hope.† (source)
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We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.† (source)
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I realized, too, that such deification was dangerous, the same god-making impulse that had created our tyrant.† (source)deification = the act of treating as a godstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Deified with a Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart for the leg lost to shrapnel.† (source)Deified = treated as a desirable god
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Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.† (source)
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Deifying itself!† (source)Deifying = treating as a god
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If you are indeed of the First, Sam, your way must lead you either to deification or extinction, when you face these new Masters of Karma.† (source)deification = the act of treating as a god
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Stone concludes: "One could in the same city and in the same century worship Zeus as a promiscuous old rake, henpecked and cuckolded by Juno or as Justice deified.† (source)deified = treated as a desirable god
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Their discontent, if they were discontented, was with the number of gods; for, after borrowing all the divinities of the earth they proceeded to deify their Caesars, and vote them altars and holy service.† (source)
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There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.† (source)deifying = treating as a god
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The Renaissance as the origin of the deification of the state?† (source)deification = the act of treating as a god
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And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by their child-magian thoughts.† (source)deified = treated as a desirable god
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