meaning of deify
1. To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.
2. To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.
3. To render godlike.
4. exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their
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