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
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
Here we have deified woman inspiring an art miraculously decorative.
From Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank
They have deified it,--that poor, frail reason; and this, while mutilating it, while proclaiming it independent and free from all law, from all principle, from everything definite.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
No tender look, nor gracious word, Nor smile, that, coming from a bride, Its object would have deified, E'er told her doting lord The love with which he burn'd Was in its kind return'd.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
