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deify

verb
/ˈdeɪ.ɪ.faɪ/UK/ˈdiː.ə.faɪ/US

Etymology

From French déifier, from Latin deificāre, from deus (“god”). By surface analysis, deity + -ify.

  1. derived from deificāre
  2. derived from déifier

Definitions

  1. To make into a god.

    • Near-synonyms: demideify, mythologize

  2. To regard as being like a deity

    To regard as being like a deity; to treat as worthy of worship; to exalt.

    • “Those people who have sought to deify our wilderness … those days are over. We are not going to sit around and read poetry to rare lizards, whilst our current account deficit goes down the gurgler,” Jones said.

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Derived

deifier, demideify, disdeify, nondeified, redeify, semideified, undeify

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA