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What does deification mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
  2. A deified embodiment.
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On the other hand, the result of the transformation in Hermes is deification.
Those events serve to undermine the inappropriate deification of these otherwise ordinary people.
The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism.
From this view of the dead to the deification of the latter is but a short step.
The playing down of Poincaré and Hilbert and the deification of Einstein the plagiarist put a question to the scientific community.
It is to his credit that he has long resisted deification and hero worship, indeed all the elaborate trappings of being a living symbol.

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