Noun:

देवता-सदृश,

deification's Usage Examples:

Partly in consequence of this, the deification of the king, with all its concomitants, was gradually extended through the ranks of the noble and wealthy until it came within the reach of the humblest, and even animals shared the honour of deification after death.

Joseph Warton's idea that the story is introduced by Virgil as a protest against the Roman custom of deification is not supported by the general tone of the Aeneid itself.

The deification of Julius Caesar was one important step: another was the natural prominence in the palace of the cult of the Genius of the emperor himself.

In his Christology he departed from the Lutheran and Zwinglian doctrine of the two natures by insisting on what he called the Vergotterung des Fleisches Christi, the deification or the glorification of the flesh of Christ.

vehement recoil from Kant's deification of formal logic with its principle of " analytic " tautology.

Boissier, La Religion romaine; Renier, Inscriptions d'Algiers, 2510.) The Greek term Apotheosis, probably a coinage of the Hellenistic epoch, becomes more nearly technical for the deification of dead emperors.

airoOEav, to make a god, to deify), literally deification.

There is no doubt that it contains an element of truth; as among the Romans the gradual deification of ancestors and the apotheosis of emperors were prominent features of religious development, so among primitive peoples it is possible to trace the evolution of family and tribal gods from great chiefs and warriors.

Pantheism is properly the deification of the law of phenomena, the universe God.

Clemens accuses Basilides of a deification of the Devil (Oast etv Ten) 8c'f30Xov), and regards as his two dogmas that of the Devil and that of the transmigration of souls (Strom.

Synonyms:

avatar, embodiment, incarnation,

Antonyms:

decline, unsoundness, dryness, tonicity,