Deification is an English word with synonyms like condition or status. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deification in a sentence
Deification meaning
- The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis.
- Excessive praise.
- A deified embodiment.
Synonyms of Deification
Using Deification
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis. | Excessive praise. | A deified embodiment.
- Useful related words include: condition, status, embodiment, incarnation.
- In the example corpus, deification often appears in combinations such as: deification of, the deification, for deification.
Context around Deification
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deification
- In this selection, "deification" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, secular, personal, self, henosis, seealso and personal stand out and add context to how "deification" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include father for deification and and his deification have led. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deification" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deification
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Marcus and Lucius nominated their father for deification. (8 words)
The lax corporate governance and his deification have led to WeWork’s breakdown. (13 words)
Deification seeAlso Julius Caesar was the first historical Roman to be officially deified. (13 words)
Jesus is neither God nor Son of God According to the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus foresaw and rejected his own deification: And having said this, Jesus smote his face with both his hands, and then smote the ground with his head. (41 words)
I want us to pause for a minute as we cheer each plea deal Trump’s friends are getting and the second and third chances they receive en route to the deification of their roles in taking down this administration. (40 words)
Etymology The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *Dhagho-deiwos "shining divinity", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as "splendour". (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
A bold endeavor by designer David Norris, highlighted the designer's ambition to spark a dialogue on the deification of brands.
Many believe the Vietnamese concept of the female Buddha was to offset the evangelism of the colonialists and their deification of Mother Mary.
Many viewers think that jumped the shark a long time ago with its increasingly senseless storylines, but the deification of Rick Sanchez as the mad scientist of the show also proved harmful to the sitcom.
I believe we're seeing a similar moment with the deification and celebration of Luigi Mangione.
The second is to prepare an objective and rational much overdue and sorely needed biography, not slavish hagiography and secular deification, of BB’s political life warts and all.
The lax corporate governance and his deification have led to WeWork’s breakdown.
I want us to pause for a minute as we cheer each plea deal Trump’s friends are getting and the second and third chances they receive en route to the deification of their roles in taking down this administration.
According to Samuel Angus (1925) the gnostic sectarians also sought to reconcile the individual to their own personal deification ( henosis ), making each individual God.
After a seven-day interval (justitium) Marcus and Lucius nominated their father for deification.
Deification seeAlso Julius Caesar was the first historical Roman to be officially deified.
Etymology The name Dagda may ultimately be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *Dhagho-deiwos "shining divinity", the first element being cognate with the English word " day ", and possibly a byword for a deification of a notion such as "splendour".
Highly individualistic in basis, the Temple promotes the idea that practitioners should seek self-deification and thus attain an immortality of consciousness.
It has been argued (most extensively by Marshall Sahlins ) that such coincidences were the reasons for Cook's (and to a limited extent, his crew's) initial deification by some Hawaiians who treated Cook as an incarnation of Lono.
Jesus is neither God nor Son of God According to the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus foresaw and rejected his own deification: And having said this, Jesus smote his face with both his hands, and then smote the ground with his head.
Knowledge thus plays an important role in relation to theosis (deification/personal relationship with God) and theoria (revelation of the divine, vision of God).
Marcus and Lucius nominated their father for deification.
Shotter suggests that Augustus' deification obliged Tiberius to suppress any open resentment that he might have harbored, coupled with Tiberius' "extremely conservative" attitude towards religion.
This process as described by Gregory is the public manifestation of the process of deification ( theosis ), which leads to a spiritual elevation and mystical union with God.
This very process is called Deification or "God became man that man might become 'god'".
This was further solidified as the status quo following the installation of the Roman imperial cult of deification of sitting emperors, and Roman pluralism was not officially extended to Christianity until the Edict of Milan in 313 CE.
Common combinations with deification
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- deification of 7×
- the deification 4×
- for deification 3×
- deification and 2×
- of deification 2×