[
US
/ˈdiəˌfaɪ/
]
[ UK /dˈeɪfaɪ/ ]
[ UK /dˈeɪfaɪ/ ]
VERB
-
consider as a god or godlike
These young men deify financial success -
exalt to the position of a God
the people deified their King
How To Use deify In A Sentence
- The rule thought of Oin Dynasty is a kind of eclectic thought. It makes use of theology thought of the religion to deify and rule.
- It is curious that we who deify the concept of the individual should devalue people, encouraging conformity, starving imagination. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
- Our culture is deifying celebrities, but in the bible, it is the meek who are blessed, so the title presents a question for the viewer to ponder. The Goddess
- But because both systems deify one aspect of reality they produce problems which are insoluble within their own terms of reference.
- There is a clear determination to deify these former prisoners. Guantanamo and Its Critics
- The public was fickle, sometimes positively perverse, deciding to deify an unknown against all expectation. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
- -- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH
- Maybe we could clean things up if we stopped deifying the plastic fantastic Portland legal crowd and started talking to people with "on the ground" experience of good old boy abuse. Lents Park, according to Paulson and Fireman Randy (Jack Bog's Blog)
- We have tried as hard as we can not to deify him, not to be too reverential and not to slip into easy sentiment.
- By this time, the practice of using a contour map of India to deify Bharat Mata had already gained popularity.