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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
  • 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)
  • 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 god
    standard 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.
  • Deified with a Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart for the leg lost to shrapnel.†  (source)
    Deified = treated as a desirable god
  • Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.†  (source)
  • Deifying itself!†  (source)
    Deifying = treating as a god
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • The Renaissance as the origin of the deification of the state?†  (source)
    deification = the act of treating as a god
  • 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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