Antonyms for deify

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dee-uh-fahy

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdi əˌfaɪ

Definition of deify

Origin : mid-14c., from Old French deifier (13c.), from Late Latin deificare, from deificus "making godlike," from Latin deus "god" (see Zeus) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Deified; deifying.

verb elevate, glorify

Example sentences :

It is not clear, then, how they can 'deify' classes of things, if they have no notion of deity.
Extract from : « Social Origins and Primal Law » by Andrew Lang

The nincompoop can always be counted on to deify the commonplace.
Extract from : « The Fighting Chance » by Robert W. Chambers

It did not conquer, but I may not deify that it restrained my ardour.
Extract from : « The Merry Men » by Robert Louis Stevenson

Every one was prepared to deify him, and he received this homage with pleasure.
Extract from : « Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle » by Arvede Barine

There are men even now who would outrage virtue, and deify the crime.
Extract from : « Martyria » by Augustus C. Hamlin

His choices free or fetter, elevate or debase, deify or demonize his humanity.
Extract from : « Tablets » by Amos Bronson Alcott

We deify the garments associated with that all-supreme moment.
Extract from : « Modeste Mignon » by Honore de Balzac

You deify the sun and the moon, which the Greeks take to be Apollo and Diana.
Extract from : « Cicero's Tusculan Disputations » by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you did not deify one as well as the other, what will become of Ino?
Extract from : « Cicero's Tusculan Disputations » by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It takes a thoroughly selfish age, like our own, to deify self-sacrifice.
Extract from : « Intentions » by Oscar Wilde

Synonyms for deify

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