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Example sentences for "deifies"

Lexicographically close words:
deide; deidly; deific; deification; deified; deify; deifying; deign; deigne; deigned
  1. It deifies the spirit and wondrously nourishes the mind.

  2. I have told thee, O lord, that he deifies thee.

  3. I sympathize with thee, O Cæsar; and with me earth and sea, not counting Vinicius, who deifies thee in his soul.

  4. Brahmanism degrades woman, but it deifies the cow.

  5. Idolatry perversely makes God in the image of man, and so deifies man's weakness and impurity.

  6. And in the end, a more than ordinary skill in the exercise of this power, deifies or demonizes the possessor.

  7. All Mexican and European statements make him appear as the god of the air and of the wind; even the euhemeristic idea deifies the man Quetzalcoatl into a god of the air.

  8. In contrast to heathendom, which deifies nature with its appeal to the senses, Judaism teaches that holiness is a moral quality, as it means the curbing of the senses.

  9. Heathenism either deifies nature or merges the deity into nature.

  10. The illusion which deifies matter in motion is gross enough.

  11. Let us now give our attention to the doctrine which deifies humanity, and follow out its consequences.

  12. Certainly man can conceive this too; but, in doing so, he deifies nothing but his own irrationality.

  13. Thus man here deifies satisfaction in self-pleasing, in caprice and groundless arbitrariness.

  14. The man who in this day deifies the individual or the sect, and would make the rights of the individual or the sect override the rights of the many, is battling vainly against the supreme current of the age.

  15. Fire from its heat you may not analyze, Nor worship from eternal beauty take, Which deifies the lover as he bows.

  16. In so far as it is merely social experience it deals with the world of weak mortals, of futile bickerings, and of love that, in this world, deifies but never quite finds its true beloved.

  17. Bergson deifies or spiritualizes life as a psychic, creative principle, and makes matter its instrument or vehicle.

  18. Tyndall deifies matter to get life out of it--makes the creative energy potential in it.


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