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Divinize

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Div´i`nize
v. t.1.To invest with a divine character; to deify.
Man had divinized all those objects of awe.
- Milman.
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Rome's leaders rely on the "docility of their subjects," and with death as the highest sacrifice, encourage those subjects to divinize war as a hallowed furnace for forging and purging their souls.
Empire Falls by McCarraher, Eugene / Commonweal
Similarly, partaking of Christ's flesh in the Eucharist divinizes Christians, though there is no agreement about the nature of this sanctification.
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Those looking for feminist and other postmodernist "interpretations" will be disappointed: Saindon sees nothing here but a rigorous defense of a notion of social order that unambiguously valorizes the father-son relationship and divinizes the cosmos in its terms.
LE PITRIKALPA DU HARIVAMSHA [on title page: Le Pitrakalpa du ... by GEROW, EDWIN / Pacific Affairs
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