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However this may be, the nominal divinization of kings seems not to have had any effect on the cultus.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

The divinization of everything was simply its humanization.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The name Hestia embodies not the divinization of a concrete object, but the recognition of the divine person presiding over the object in question.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

Popular feeling appears to have accepted this divinization without question and in sincerity; educated circles accepted it as an act of political policy.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

This sort of divinization is particularly prominent in Melanesia and parts of Polynesia; it exists also in Japan and in West Africa.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris