to divinize
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9.9
- verb
- /ˈdɪvɪnaɪz/
- Formal
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divinizar
- The artwork seemed to divinize the beauty of nature, elevating it to a divine status.
- divinizing love
So not just of human beings, but in becoming a creature, God divinizes the world.
- So not just of human beings, but in becoming a creature, God divinizes the world.
Examples
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In other words, God so loved the human being that, in the Incarnation, human flesh was divinized.
Academic text (2003) -
Your response to the wound that cries out to heaven would be to divinize it—to pour Your love into it so that it becomes You.
Academic text (2009) -
And why would man have to to divinize humanity, or the human person have to divinize themselves?
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So not just of human beings, but in becoming a creature, God divinizes the world.
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Many Mattamayura inscriptions make reference to the divinizing effects of meditation.
Academic text (2008) -
Because Christ realized the purposes of the whole divine project, namely, glorifying God and divinizing human nature, Christianity is ultimate among religions.
Academic text (2010) -
In the resurrection, God irrevocably adopts creaturely reality as God's own reality, divinizing and transfiguring it.
Academic text (2006) -
In many cultures, ancient texts describe how gods would divinize exceptional leaders and heroes.
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The community leaders aimed to divinize their traditions, portraying them as sacred and worthy of reverence.
Synonyms
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8.4
To treat someone like a god and admire them too much
To make someone seem like a god or without faults
Give a person or thing powers beyond what is normal
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Etymology
Divinize comes from the root divine, which means 'godlike', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make', as in the words modernize or realize. So to divinize someone or something is to make them like a god or to treat them as a god.