- present participle of deify.
deifying
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It is certainly true that at some point we, as a culture, must stop deifying people whose work, message or backstory we admire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
“They are not perfect. They are not perfect. We have to stop deifying them,” Mr. Lemon said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
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
“No one would ever confuse me with a saint,” Rick Ledbetter admits after deifying his younger brother, Tommy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
But the Marquesans, not content with deifying some men after death, deified others in their lifetime.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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