deificationn.
/diːɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ a. The action of deifying; the condition of being deified or made a deity; a deified embodiment.
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divinization1840
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theosis1874
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1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 158 Lo now, through what creacion He [Apollo] hath deificacion, And cleped is the god of wit.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 82 His deification after death.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 503 The Death and Deification of Romulus.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 29 The Phoenician religion has been defined to be a deification of the powers of Nature.
b. The treating or regarding of anything as a god or as divine.
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1651 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 227 The other part of that book..is the deification of K. Charles.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 33. ⁋7 He had the Audaciousness to throw himself at my Feet..and then ran into Deifications of my Person.
1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art I. p. xxxii The deification of suffering.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost iii. 88 The deification of the human reason as the sole rule of life.
c. The rendering of any one a partaker of the divine nature; absorption in the divine nature.
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1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iv. ii. 122 All things have emanated from God, and the end of all is return to God. Such return—deification, he calls it—is the consummation of the creature.
1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration 19 An union of condescension and power for the deification (so termed by the fathers) of each one of us.
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