divinize
Elevate to godhood
To divinize is to make divine or treat as divine—to elevate something to godlike status.
Religious contexts speak of divinizing the human soul through grace or spiritual practice.
More loosely, to divinize someone is to regard them with god-like reverence: The cult divinized its leader.
Also spelled divinise in British English.
Worship as sacred
- apotheosisPeak or deification
- godhoodStatus as a deity
- immortalizeMake lastingly famous
- enshrinePreserve as sacred
enthrone · consecrate · sanctify · canonize · beatify · exalt · elevate · transfigure
Praise with great intensity
- ennobleConfer dignity upon
- upliftRaise emotionally or physically
- glorifyPraise to excess
- magnifyIncrease perceived size
extol · laud · acclaim · honor · dignify · aggrandize · heroize · lionize
deify
Worship as sacred
- apotheosisPeak or deification
- godhoodStatus as a deity
- immortalizeMake lastingly famous
enshrine · enthrone · consecrate · sanctify · canonize · beatify · exalt · elevate · transfigure · transcend
exalt
Praise with great intensity
magnify · extol · laud · acclaim · honor · dignify · aggrandize · heroize · lionize · celebrate
veneration
Profound admiring respect
prayer · ritual · altar · shrine · temple · sanctuary · offerings · supplication · prostration · hymns
divinizesecularize
Remove from religious control
profane · desecrate · humanize · disenchant · unhallow
- divining rodForked branch for finding water
- divinity schoolInstitution for theological education
- water diviningDetecting underground water sources
- divinity of ChristJesus being fully God
divinity, divining, divinities, divinized, divinizing, divinization