How To Use Deification In A Sentence
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Now, 20 years after his death, the people of that intense, teeming, vibrant place still hold him in a regard which borders on deification.
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Those events serve to undermine the inappropriate deification of these otherwise ordinary people.
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I admire the way he has virtually renounced ancestral claims to deification.
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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.
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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
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The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism.
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It is a type of self-worship or self-deification, but why exclude the possibility of external forces at work?
Archive 2010-02-01
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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
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Query: whether there be no connection between brachycephalism and this modern deification of machinery?
Alone
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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.
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It is to his credit that he has long resisted deification and hero worship, indeed all the elaborate trappings of being a living symbol.
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It's a small step from infantilisation to deification.
Times, Sunday Times
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The deifications and hagiologies were particularly overt in the remarks of prominent black figures.
City Journal
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Secular, it opposed deification of any kind, including of a leader like Mao Zedong.
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I admire the way he has virtually renounced ancestral claims to deification.
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You created a deification and a miracle.
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It stands to reason that the essence of this union by love consists neither in a natural union with Jesus analogous to that between soul and body, nor in a hypostatic union of the soul with the Person of the Word, nor finally in a pantheistical deification of the communicant, but simply in a moral but wonderful union with Christ by the bond of the most ardent charity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
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the capitalists' deification of capital
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Yeats refers to the concepts, in his treatises, of earthly and celestial hierarchies and of a ‘Mystical Theology’, through which knowledge of God and the progressive deification of man may be attained by a process of Neoplatonic abstraction.
Later Articles and Reviews
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They superimposed astrology, the use of the zodiac, and the deification of the four seasons onto the Persian rites of Mithraism.
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For the same reason , our party abhors the deification of an individual.
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Hence, in the West, the aim of the Christian is justification, but in the East, it is rather communion with God and deification .
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Making sense of his status as a postmodern social icon is as difficult as understanding his posthumous deification by millions of fans.
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Drawing upon primarily Western theological sources, Augustine and Aquinas each offer a doctrine of deification that is distinct from Eastern conceptions.
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An important achievement of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union lies in the fact that it showed us what serious consequences can follow from deification of an individual.