as in worship
excessive admiration of or devotion to a person
the instant deification by the press of the country's newest war hero
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Recent Examples of deification
So a tidy quid pro quo is arranged: Emperor Titus will shut down the Gold faction in exchange for the other faction leaders’ support of his father’s deification in the Senate.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
Maybe columnist Bill Plaschke and others can now stop the deification of Caleb Williams.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 18 July 2024
Maybe columnist Bill Plaschke and others can now stop the deification of Caleb Williams.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deification
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Dozens of hospitals, clinics shuttered In less than four years, Haiti has seen the destruction and closure of dozens of hospitals and medical clinics as armed groups take over entire towns and set up encampments in places of worship, private homes and buildings that once saved lived.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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More and more, Sister was a being that was beyond human, a figure of reverence and worship who possessed supernatural powers.—
Claire Hoffman,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2025
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Joseph Lawrence, whose adoration of his first wife blinds him to all other women, is getting dragged to the strip club.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2025
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TikTok users were quick to share their adoration of the special moment.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Empathy rather than the idolatry of power will actually make our nation strong.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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Miracle workers, moreover, often become the subjects of so much popular devotion that their authority can begin to approach idolatry or rival that of the Church itself.—
Emily Harnett,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Deification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deification. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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