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divinize

American  
[div-uh-nahyz] / ˈdɪv əˌnaɪz /
especially British, divinise

verb (used with object)

divinized, divinizing
  1. to make divine; deify.


divinize British  
/ ˈdɪvɪˌnaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to make divine; deify

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of divinize

1650–60; divine + -ize; compare French diviniser

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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 Amos Bronson Alcott

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 Nesta H. Webster

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 Edward Carpenter

Their religion is, as it were, a last attempt to divinize all that constitutes humanity in men.

From God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

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

Greece is what she is, lives in the life of men and shapes the minds and souls of peoples, through her great heroes, through her various gods, which were nothing but divinized heroes.

From Simon Bolivar, the Liberator by Guillermo A. Sherwell

The Hindu figure is often compared to the Avestan first man, Yima; but Yima, so far as appears, was never divinized, and is not religiously of great importance.

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

Thy soul is divinized in the Hall of Seb.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson

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 Paul Janet

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