deify
verb (used with object)
have deified
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present perfectof deify.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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The very summation of our era as "The Age of Anxiety" and our endless preoccupation with anxiety indicates that we have deified the thing which besets us.
From Time Magazine Archive
I will be proud when I hear—'that was he, and that was he again—and that has he accomplished; there they have worshipped him, and there they have deified him!'
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Extraordinary good qualities, though intermingled with many errors and human foibles, have deified many men.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
As Baron Alfred von Kremer, another learned and experienced Orientalist, reminds me, the "Shi'ahs" have always shown a decided tendency to this kind of apotheosis and have deified or quasi-deified Ali and the Imams.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Hindoos may be said to have deified this state.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
