divinize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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.
Earnestness, sincerity, are orators whose persuasions are irresistible; they hold all gifts in fusion, magnetize, divinize, harmonize all.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
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
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
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