divinize
Americanverb (used with object)
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"Bruise me up, I'll eat all of my pride / I know that I was made to divinize."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Earnestness, sincerity, are orators whose persuasions are irresistible; they hold all gifts in fusion, magnetize, divinize, harmonize all.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
Is it necessary to point out the folly as well as the crime of this delusion--the ludicrous inconsequence of men who divinize humanity yet revile what they call "society"?
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.
The tendency to divinize the totem is at least as much dependent on the positive sense of unity with it, as on the negative scruples which limit the relation in each particular case.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Carpenter, Edward
Their religion is, as it were, a last attempt to divinize all that constitutes humanity in men.
From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
On the one hand, tantric yoga served to increasingly refine consciousness as a means to achieving divinized embodiment or, in other words, becoming a god while remaining in the body.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2016
In ancient times, says Gogarten, man envisioned himself as a creature entwined with and contained by a divinized cosmos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Caught between the heavy boulders above and beneath the couch, the Shōgun was to be sent to rest with, not worship of, his divinized grandfather at Nikkō.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
In the Roman sacra gentilicia it was rather the divinized ancestors who were the guests—they were entertained by the living.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
These katcinas, as divinized ancestors, are supposed to return to the villages and receive prayers for rain.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
A German critic, Feuerbach, said with great effect, that religion consisted in divinizing human attributes.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul
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