deify
verb (used with object)
had deified
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past perfectof deify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The spell which had deified him was broken.
From The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 by A. M. W. Stirling
Just such a face Raphael had deified, If in his day they two had chanced to meet.
From A Lover's Diary, Complete by Gilbert Parker
Incapable of any transcendental belief whatsoever, his intelligence had deified free- agency, while his unacknowledged suspicion of a directing power asserted itself in his theories concerning nature's fatalism.
From Greifenstein by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Would their idol and their pride, He whom they had deified, Leave his royal grenadiers, Veteran troops of twenty years?
From Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
He had deified himself, set himself upon a high place, bent men and affairs to his own ends, until he had acquired a godlike belief in his power to accomplish all things.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
