deify

Example Sentences

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In a 1942 essay, Hall wrote: “All followers who offer to adorn and deify their teachers set up a false condition. Human beings, experience has proved, make better humans than they do gods.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

We build monuments and deify leaders in an effort to transcend our mortality.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

It’s a fascinating exploration of the paradoxes of humanity’s religious instincts — and the power of followers to deify flawed mortals against their will.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

American society tends to deify businesses and and athletes, he said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2021

Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy