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half-deified

  • a word derived from deify.
    deify
    verb (used with object)
    to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity.

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This veneration of the founder of a local church reminds one of the respect shown to the images of half-deified abbots in Tibet, China and Japan.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot