divinize

American  

[div-uh-nahyz] / ˈdɪv əˌnaɪz /

especially British, divinise

verb (used with object)

divinized, divinizing

1. to make divine; deify.

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divinize British  

/ ˈdɪvɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to make divine; deify

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Other Word Forms

• divinization noun

Etymology

Origin of divinize

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

Example Sentences

"Bruise me up, I'll eat all of my pride / I know that I was made to divinize."

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

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.

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

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

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

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