Word Meanings - DEIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.

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• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• DIVINELY
  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• EXALTATION
  The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property. (more info) 1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• APOTHEOSIS
  1. The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification. 2. Glorification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison.
• PRAISE
  fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
• DIVINERESS
  A woman who divines. Dryden.
• DEIFY
  1. To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified. 2. To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money. He did again to extol
• DIVINENESS
  The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
• DIVINEMENT
  Divination.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• DIVINE
  divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley. 2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection." Bacon.
• PRAISEFUL
  Praiseworthy.
• PRAISEWORTHY
  Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DISDEIFY
  To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• SUPEREXALTATION
  Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• UNDEIFY
  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. Addison.
• DISPRAISER
  One who blames or dispraises.
• APPRAISEMENT
  The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.
• SELF-EXALTATION
  The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.