The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deify \De"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deified; p. pr. & vb. n. Deifying.] [F. d['e]ifier, LL. deificare, fr. L. deificus. See Deific, Deity, -fy.]
To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius C[ae]sar was deified.
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To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.
He did again so extol and deify the pope.
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To render godlike.
By our own spirits are we deified.
--Wordsworth.
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vb. (present participle of deify English)
Usage examples of "deifying".
Her mere subjection to the priesthood, her inborn feminine delight in form and ceremony - now an influence narrowing her charity - must then, to his dim eyes, trained to look upon dogma as the living soul of his religion, have seemed a halo, deifying her.
They would be deifying not just any man, but the man responsible for all our present woes, the man you yourself referred to as an inhuman monster.