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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


Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Earnestness, sincerity, are orators whose persuasions are irresistible; they hold all gifts in fusion, magnetize, divinize, harmonize all.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

Nevertheless the cult of the divinized king was practiced seriously.

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

Thy soul is divinized in Heaven, to make all the transformations it desireth.

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

Among the simple clan gods divinized men should be included.

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

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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