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Meanings of apotheosise in English

Spanish
idolatrar

To make a god of.

        idolatrar
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        Examples for "deify"
        Examples for "deify"
        1
        It treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.
        Essays — First Series
        2
        It takes a thoroughly selfish age, like our own, to deify self-sacrifice.
        Intentions
        3
        Brave natures do not stoop to assassination, which you seem to deify.
        Under Two Flags
        4
        We may appropriately ask, why did primitive people deify the sexual organs?
        The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
        5
        By late August, American scribes were in the mood to deify Tiger Woods.
        The Irish Times
        1
        It is a singular piece of good-nature in you to apotheosize him.
        The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18...
        2
        In all ages, in order to justify the passions, it was necessary to apotheosize them.
        Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos / T...
        3
        Yet why apotheosize conquerors at all?
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
        4
        I do not wish to drift into a cheap cynicism, and apotheosize the old days at the expense of the new.
        Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
        5
        Such men as McKinley in the House fairly apotheosized the protective system.
        The United States Since the Civil War
        1
        Eagle of the apotheoses, what breath of Erebus has driven thee to me?
        The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul
        2
        The result is that he has plenty of apotheoses.
        Napoleon the Little
        3
        In 1827, the first submitted to general admiration l'Apotheose d'Homere and Le Martyre de Saint Symphorien.
        The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
        4
        Such apotheoses have lugubrious terminations.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        5
        Almost every deity mentioned in the Ko-ji-ki or Nihongi has a shrine somewhere; and hundreds of others-includingmany later apotheoses-havetheir temples.
        Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
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