deification

How To Use deification In A Sentence

• Now, 20 years after his death, the people of that intense, teeming, vibrant place still hold him in a regard which borders on deification.
• Those events serve to undermine the inappropriate deification of these otherwise ordinary people.
• I admire the way he has virtually renounced ancestral claims to deification.
• I'm sure though we can all think of the fabulously wealthy who have no problem taking advantage of their deification to extract even greater wealth and power from society at large.
• However, through intellectual contemplation (theoria, intellectus) and divine illumination (which is the receiving of a divine self-manifestation, theophania), humans may achieve unification (henosis) with God, and the select few will even undergo ˜deification™ (deificatio, theosis) which Eriugena interprets as complete identity with God. John Scottus Eriugena
• The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism.
• It is a type of self-worship or self-deification, but why exclude the possibility of external forces at work? Archive 2010-02-01
• Amy is still perky and twinkly, a box-fresh Katie Price ready for deification by the masses. Celebrity Big Brother: Grace Dent's TV OD
• Query: whether there be no connection between brachycephalism and this modern deification of machinery? Alone
• During the Late Period his veneration extended to deification and he became a local god at Memphis where he was glorified for his skills as a physician and a healer.