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deify
/ˈdiː.ə.faɪ/
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What does deify mean?
verb
- To make into a god.
- To regard as being like a deity; to treat as worthy of worship; to exalt.
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They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them.
Plato adds, that these are immortal children that immortalise and deify their fathers, as Lycurgus, Solon, Minos.
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It treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.
They deify a purpose; they attach it to themselves so that it becomes more essentially themselves than their religion or their family.
This it is which Christianity has condemned, but which its ignorant ministers deify; who have as little desire to study Nature and man, as ability to read their Scriptures.