deify

To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.

This on a continent where most people nearly deify the Clintons, and almost all American presidents.

The latter wished to deify Alexander; but Timaeus exalts Timoleon above the most venerable gods.

Not satisfied with three Gods, they must canonize and deify men and make saints and demi-gods.

It is a ghastly thing to study these religions, and to see what dark and revolting qualities ignorance can deify.

It is not clear, then, how they can 'deify' classes of things, if they have no notion of deity.

His choices free or fetter, elevate or debase, deify or demonize his humanity.