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An act or instance of making someone or something god or god-like.

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  • There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual.
  • It is essentially a mystical hierurgical insti - tution concerned with the salvation and divinization of man.
  • Indeed, even the divinization of humanity, as an abstract totality, would not be in the spirit of that ideal.
  • The process of becoming Christed – the divinization of individual human beings – was, in his view, accessible to all: "All this ye shall do and more."
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