divinize
verbEtymology From divine + -ize.
1
To make divine; to make godlike; to exalt.
- As to the tendency to divinise these totems, this arises no doubt partly out of question (2).1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 57:
- Derived terms
- divinisation, divinization