deify
pronunciation
How to pronounce deify in British English:
UK [ˈdeɪɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce deify in American English:
US [ˈdiəˌfaɪ]
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- Verb:
- consider as a god or god-like
- exalt to the position of a God
Word Origin
- deify (v.)
- mid-14c., from Old French deifier (13c.), from Late Latin deificare, from deificus "making godlike," from Latin deus "god" (see Zeus) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Deified; deifying.
Example
- 1. This is a vital part of the archetypal martyr / messiah myth : to mythologize and deify the martyr .
- 2. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ?
- 3. On the color , they own political utility , deify monarchy for serving han dynasty .
- 4. Protestants at times have been called atheists because of their refusal to deify mary and to worship saints .
- 5. Let us then mark , that the end of the gospel is , to render us eventually conformable to god , and , if we may so speak , to deify us .