divinize

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divinise (mainly UK)

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divinize (third-person singular simple present divinizes, present participle divinizing, simple past and past participle divinized)

(transitive) To make divine; to make godlike.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 57:
  As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).

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deify

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divinisation, divinization

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divinize

inflection of divinizar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative