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Deification is the act of treating a person or a thing as if they were a god — or with a respect so high it looks like worship. Fans can slide into the deification of a star; a country can fall into the deification of a leader. The word is formal, a little , and often slightly critical: the speaker usually thinks the praise has gone too far. In older religion it also names making someone a god (emperors, heroes). In Christian teaching it has a special, careful sense — humans sharing in the life of God (Latin deificātiō used for Greek theosis) — which is not the same as loosely "worshipping a celebrity," though actually students meet the celebrity sense far more often in ordinary English. It is a noun: it names the treating, not the person being treated.
神化；奉若神明
組成From Middle English deificacion, from Middle French deifier + -acion, or from Latin deificātiō, from deificāre (deify) + -tiō. Latin de(i) "god" + -ficō "make." By surface analysis, deify + -ication.
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- deifythe verb: to make into a god, or to treat as one
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deificationnoun
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The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis.
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Excessive praise.
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A deified embodiment.
- We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.
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ChristianitylifestylereligionUnion with God; theosis.
- There is an experiential component to Maximos’ writings: he draws upon the reality of the contemplative life and in doing so secures deification as the goal of the monastic spiritual life in Orthodoxy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。