divinization

noun
/ˌdɪvɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Etymology

From divine + -ization.

  1. derived from dīvīnō
  2. derived from deviner
  3. suffixed as divinization — “divine + ization

Definitions

  1. The act or process of making divine.

    • [W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves?
    • And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace […] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]

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