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Definition of deifying : of Deify

Synonyms:

adulatory

revering, glorifying, venerating, worshiping, consecrating, idolizing, adoring, admiring

dignifying, respecting, worshipping, praying, devoting

exalting, prayerful, devotional, cherishing, respectful, worshipful, reverent

Usage examples:

• The witty Rosalind declares to Orlando, in her bantering way, that there is a man haunts the forest, that abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind ... - "Primitive Love and Love-Stories", Henry Theophilus Finck.
• Subsequently the emperors assumed it during their own lifetimes, thus deifying themselves. - "The Hindu-Arabic Numerals", David Eugene Smith Louis Charles Karpinski.
• Catholicism is precisely that power that combats with success against the deifying of men. - "The Progressionists, and Angela.", Conrad von Bolanden.