deify
verb (used with object)
has deified
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present perfectof deify (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Here is nature winnowed and perfected, which has become human in order to delight humanity, and which humanity has deified in order to shelter love beneath its shade.
From Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
It has deified its own traits and worships them.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Man has deified corn and wine! but not even the Chinese or the Irish have raised temples to tea and potatoes.'
From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
It has deified and damned every statesman by turn.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
One distinguished novelist has deified such a man, and made him a hero of her numerous tales.
From Rockhaven by Charles Clark Munn
