deified
past simple and past participle ofdeify
deify
verb[T]
uk/ˈdeɪ.ɪ.faɪ/us/ˈdiː.ɪ.faɪ/to make someone or something into agod:
The Romans used to deifytheiremperors.
disapproving
toconsidersomeone or something to be soimportantthat they arealmostlike agod:
Pelé was deified by hisfans.
Worshipping a god
- adoration
- adore
- churchgoing
- deification
- deify
- devout
- devoutly
- devoutness
- glory
- godliness
- godly
- idolater
- pious
- piously
- practising
- praise
- prostrate
- worship
- worshipper
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Showing respect and admiration
Examplesofdeified
deified
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The commissive aspect embodied in the oath makes the oath institutional, moredeified, revered, and dangerous, and hence a verbal taboo.
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However, instead of being 'places', these weredeifiedheterotopias.
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Is it really true, though, that subjects from the sixteenth century and onwards literallydeifiedtheir monarchs?
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Clearly,deifiedheterotopias in rituals have the added advantage of giving concrete shape to an abstraction - thus making them, easily referable in daily use.
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Huitzilopochtli seems to be the epitome of thedeifiedancestor who becomes an oracle.
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No one has discussed the role of the chief valuer, who has sounded so far to be in adeifiedposition.
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In this modern world, we have almostdeifieddoctors and think that they have a cure for virtually everything.
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Those who ought to bedeifiedare those who wade through blood and fire to bring us the victory to which we now look forward.
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I, unlike some earlier speakers, do not go along with thedeifiedsovereignty of this place.
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He minted coins bearing his father'sdeifiedimage and proclaimed his desire to avenge his death.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Soldiers commemorated fallen comrades, and might swear an oath on the "manes" (deifiedspirits) of dead brothers-in-arms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sarit and his successorsdeifiedthe throne and relied on royal sponsorship to legitimize their dictatorship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He made the statue, and it wasdeified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was a priest, but was afterwardsdeified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The coins with her inscription were not struck during her life, but some time later, probably after she wasdeified.
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