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deification|diːɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action from L. deificāre to deify: so in F. (1556 in Hatzf.).]
The action of deifying; the condition of being deified or made a deity; a deified embodiment.
1393Gower Conf. II. 158 Lo now, through what creacion He [Apollo] hath deificacion, And cleped is the god of wit. 1606Holland Sueton. 82 His deification after death. 1700Dryden Fables Pythag. Philos. Argt. 1 The death and deification of Romulus. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 29 The Phoenician religion has been defined to be a deification of the powers of Nature.
b. The treating or regarding of anything as a god or as divine.
1651Nicholas Papers (Camden) 227 The other part of that book..is the deification of K. Charles. 1709Steele Tatler No. 33 ⁋7 He had the Audaciousness to throw himself at my Feet..and then ran into Deifications of my Person. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 11 The deification of suffering. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost iii. 88 The deification of the human reason as the sole rule of life.
c. The rendering of any one a partaker of the divine nature; absorption in the divine nature.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. iv. ii. 93 All things have emanated from God, and the end of all is return to God. Such return—deification, he calls it—is the consummation of the creature. 1857Keble Euchar. Ador. 19 An union of condescension and power for the deification (so termed by the fathers) of each one of us. |