- present participle of deify.
deifying
Example Sentences
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“They are not perfect. They are not perfect. We have to stop deifying them,” Mr. Lemon said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
It acts as a deifying diptych to that of The Epic – from space to the earthly pursuit of heaven.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019
One is a pitch-dark, but also visually cute, animated series that has perfected, by not deifying or lauding, the antihero, who this season was even more explicitly shown to be a #MeToo creep.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2018
Stage productions featuring him are rare and tend to stick to the deifying narrative.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2017
But they carried furthest of all nations this personifying and deifying of every separate power, this minute subdivision of the deity.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
