deified; deifying
1
a
: to make a god of
b
: to take as an object of worship
2
: to glorify as of supreme worth
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Examples of deify in a Sentence
The people deified the emperor.
materialistic people who deify money
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Law goes balls out (literally) in crafting the narcissistic megalomaniac that is Ritter, a man who deifies Nietzsche.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
Trump is deified in Butler, a town where longtime auto dealership owner Mike Kelly (who married into the T.W. Phillips oil and gas family fortune) loudly serves as a controversial U.S. representative.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
The solution to this question can be reached not by deifying the nation, but on the contrary by completely liberating productive forces from the fetters imposed upon them by the national state.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Blockchain transactions are deified because of their completely private nature.
—Maria Paula Fernandez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
Trump is deified in Butler, a town where longtime auto dealership owner Mike Kelly (who married into the T.W. Phillips oil and gas family fortune) loudly serves as a controversial U.S. representative.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
The solution to this question can be reached not by deifying the nation, but on the contrary by completely liberating productive forces from the fetters imposed upon them by the national state.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Blockchain transactions are deified because of their completely private nature.
—Maria Paula Fernandez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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deify
verb
de·i·fy
ˈdē-ə-ˌfī 
deified; deifying
1
a
: to make a god of
Roman emperors were often deified
b
: to take as an object of worship
Druids deified oak trees
2
: to glorify as of supreme worth
deify money
deification
noun
ˌdē-ə-fə-ˈkā-shən
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