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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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
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
The gods he described as philanthropists whom a grateful world had deified.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
In such plausibilities she merged every scruple as to those she had deified to her own mind.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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
