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 and euhemerism are equally natural to the Chinese.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
Deification exhibited in Pumpkinification obviously measures the distance from the honest credulity of one class and period to the keen infidelity of another.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Oh, Priestess of Cubical passion, Oh, Deification of Whim, You seem to walk down in the fashion That lame lobsters swim. 43Here we have Mr. P.B.
From The Re-echo Club by Wells, Carolyn
Vocabulary lists containing deification
The Souls of Black Folk
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
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