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 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
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
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
Him who clasps in his thought and in his love the whole humanity whose troubled annals history recounts, and who divinized the spirit of youth when He assumed its form?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
Over his niche in the Temple of Fame might be written: "I have said ye are gods;"—for the children of men in his ideal world are divinized.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
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
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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