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deification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deification \De`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [LL. deificare to deify: cf. F. d['e]ification. See Deify.] The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Late Latin deificationem (nominative deificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of deificare (see deify).
Wiktionary
n. The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
WordNet
n. the condition of being treated like a god
an embodiment of the qualities of a god; "the capitalists' deification of capital"
the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) [syn: exaltation, apotheosis]
Usage examples of "deification".
The whole essence of Catholicism, however, consists in the deification of tradition generally.
The hope of deification is the expression of the idea that this world and human nature do not correspond to that exalted world which man has built up within his own mind and which he may reasonably demand to be realised, because it is only in it that he can come to himself.
But, when the Christian religion was represented as the belief in the incarnation of God and as the sure hope of the deification of man, a speculation that had originally never got beyond the fringe of religious knowledge was made the central point of the system and the simple content of the Gospel was obscured.
Origen, in opposition to the fables about deification, sought to prove that Christ is divine because he realised the aim of founding a holy community in humanity.
Nietzschean asceticism, which begins with the recognition of fatality, ends in a deification of fate.
The deification is completed when Rousseau, separating the sovereign from his very origins, reaches the point of distinguishing between the general will and the will of all.
The deification of Hegel by himself, after the deification of Napoleon, who would henceforth be innocent since he had succeeded in stabilizing history, lasted only seven years.
From this angle, socialism is therefore an enterprise for the deification of man and has assumed some of the characteristics of traditional religions.
It kept her in her place and helped combat her greatest fight, the fight against her own blasphemous deification among the masses.
Triumph after triumph, the highest awards and degrees, elevation to important office, advisor to emperors and savior of peasants, and eventual deification to become Celestial Patron of scrofulous, illiterate, lice-ridden lads digging ditches behind schoolhouses.
But a powerful and formidable chief destined to speedy deification, was honored with a tomb worthy of his exploits.
He would not be consoled, even when the Senate decreed the baby instant deification, a temple, and a priesthood.
Deification exhibited in Pumpkinification obviously measures the distance from the honest credulity of one class and period to the keen infidelity of another.
At the present time, unfortunately, all signs point, not to decentralization and the abolition of man-herders, but rather to a steady increase in the power of the Big Shepherd and his oligarchy of bureaucratic dogs, to a growth in the size, the complexity, the machine-like efficiency and rigidity of social organizations, and to a completer deification of the State, accompanied by a completer reification, or reduction to thing-hood, of individual persons.
A horrible fancy came into my head that Moreau, after animalising these men, had infected their dwarfed brains with a kind of deification of himself.