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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis..
We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.
There is an experiential component to Maximos’ writings: he draws upon the reality of the contemplative life and in doing so secures deification as the goal of the monastic spiritual life in Orthodoxy.
Use deification when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deification means The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis..
Common synonyms include divinisation, divinization, apotheosis, euhemerization.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.
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