deification
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Sidestepping the deification of his subject, Mr. O’Meara humanizes Prefontaine in his vexing contradictions, buoyant spirit and brutal competitiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2025
The deification of our jazz dead is stunning to behold that way.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
The process of deification had become so routine among later emperors that when the emperor Vespasian was dying, he is reported to have said, “Alas! I think I am becoming a god!”
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
And its rigid hierarchy and customs do not mesh well with the deification of liberty and individualism that permeate U.S. culture.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023
It is the deification of the material world; and therefore, that art, which in its perfection may be called the apotheosis of form, finds there its proper region and element.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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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