deify

He was the last of a deified generation of CBS News luminaries that included Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, and Ed Bradley.

Still, expectations are high, given that the series is based on a work by one of the most deified literary figures of our time.

No writer, no matter how extraordinary nor how fervently deified, should be left untouched, collecting dust on her pedestal.

Her baby, when born, is exposed as being illegitimate, but found by a goatherd and brought up—becoming the all but deified Atys.

We shall refer first to the simpler symbols, those in which an object was deified because of its form.

One important kind of symbolism had to do with the form of the object deified.

Generally speaking, it was the “vegetation spirit” existing throughout nature which was deified.

The people were the masters of Rome, and they had chosen their Cæsar in the hero whom they had already deified.