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  • verb Present participle of beatify.

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Examples

  • One thing I would add is that the modern cult of beatifying Charles Darwin is dependent upon demonizing his younger half-cousin Francis Galton.

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “The Darwin Show” 2010

  • One thing I would add is that the modern cult of beatifying Charles Darwin is dependent upon demonizing his younger half-cousin Francis Galton.

    “Youths” Torch Cars In France On New Year’s Eve 2010

  • One thing I would add is that the modern cult of beatifying Charles Darwin is dependent upon demonizing his younger half-cousin Francis Galton.

    “The Darwin Show” 2010

  • I'm not sure I get it, and it's in poor taste, but Locus Online has a satirical article by L. Ron Creepweans about the Catholic Church beatifying author Neil Gaiman.

    St. Gaiman 2007

  • The splendour that radiates from her countenance can help Dante sustain the impact of the beatifying vision of the glorious face of Christ.

    A Most Sublime Prayer 2009

  • By beatifying him, Pope Benedict is holding up to the whole Church the life and teachings of Cardinal Newman as a sure guide for us to follow, and as an inspiration for the Church today.

    " Te Deum Laudamus " Catholic Mom of 10 2009

  • After all, the servile savants already beatifying Bush on Fox News, right wing talk radio, and in The Washington Times are as likely to pass their genes and memes down to future generations as is slime mold, and the Snopes clan that inherits the earth in Faulkner's dark vision.

    Marty Kaplan: Washington, Lincoln, Bush 2008

  • We are voting for a president, a politician, not beatifying a savior, after all.

    Brian Palmer: Presidential Campaigning on the Down-Low? 2008

  • You get older and you see that life isn't so easy to navigate and there is little value to demonizing (or what's the opposite word, beatifying?) people.

    Randompie kittenpie 2006

  • All that remained was for the pope to find a way of formally beatifying Stein without offending Jews.

    Making Saints 2008

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