deification
Example Sentences
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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
Even students goofing off in the back should catch on that Neil is still enchanted by the frisson of deification that sometimes descends from heaven into a classroom.
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022
However useful this deification was to the church, it was attended with some difficulties.
From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter
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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