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Definition of Divinize
1. v. t. To invest with a divine character; to deify.
Definition of Divinize
1. Verb. (transitive) To make divine; to make godlike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Divinize
1. to make divine [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES] - See also: divine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divinize
Literary usage of Divinize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pagan & Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter (1920)
"(3) As to the tendency to divinize these totems, this arises no doubt partly out
... The tendency to divinize the totem is at least as much dependent on the ..."
2. An Introduction to Protestant Dogmatics by Paul Lobstein (1902)
"Those who divinize the collection of books of the New Testament should also
divinize the tradition of a church which they maintain in other respects is ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1894)
"... quicken, sanctify, divinize humanity ? It breaks down the analogy which S.
Paul recognizes between the Spirit of God and the spirit of man. ..."
4. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"They divinize human language. They never think of the difficulties that someone
might feel who was not a god but simply a Descartes, a Newton, or a Leibnitz ..."
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