deify

in a sentence

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) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

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) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

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) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

I realized, too, that such deification was dangerous, the same god-making impulse that had created our tyrant.†  (source) Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994

Deified with a Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart for the leg lost to shrapnel.†  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Burned, 2006

Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

Deifying itself!†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

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) Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light, 1967

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) Doug Linder, The Trial of Socrates, 2002

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) Lew Wallace, Ben Hur, 1880

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) William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1600

The Renaissance as the origin of the deification of the state?†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

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) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851