deification
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Deification is unwarranted, but conducting entails much more than "just waving the baton around."
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018
Marriage in particular is a kind of Counter-Apotheosis, or a Deification inverted.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Deification of emperors, during the era of the Caesars, led to the denigration and degradation of the common man.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
See Axtell, Deification of abstract idea in Roman literature, p.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Idea of, 39–40; of the gods, 99 Deification.
From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Vocabulary lists containing deification
The Souls of Black Folk
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"Reality Check," Vocabulary from the short story
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
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