Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce from the state of deity; deprive of the character or qualities of a god; deprive of the honor due to a god.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
degrade from the state ofdeity ; to deprive of the character or qualities of agod .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illustrious general can lose a decisive battle and with it the consideration of men; but once a prince always a prince -- that is to say, an imitation god, and neither hard fortune nor an infamous character nor an addled brain nor the speech of an ass can undeify him.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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Object, or worthy of religion, without knowing all of him, which is impossible: and if it were possible it would undeify him.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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Who art thou that takest upon thee at this rate, to undeify God and deify the creature, a mortal worm?
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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