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divinization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌdɪvɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Etymology

From divine + -ization.

Meanings

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable) The act or process of making divine.
   • [W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves? 1873, Matthew Arnold, “Religion Given”, in Literature & Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […], →OCLC, section 3, page 37:
   • And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace […] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.] 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:

Forms

Translations (7)

fr divinisation (act or process of making divine) · el θεοποίηση (act or process of making divine) · ru обожествле́ние (act or process of making divine) · fi jumalallistaminen (act or process of making divine) · es divinización (act or process of making divine) · sv gudomliggörelse (act or process of making divine) · pt divinização (act or process of making divine)