(n.) The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's quite enough deification of kiddywinks in the media already, thanks.
(2) Economists, who in the past had to play second fiddle to political analysts, are now in great demand - witness the deification of viewer-friendly economics guru Evan Davis at the BBC and the ubiquity of the corporation's business editor Robert Peston, despite his curious way with the English language.
(3) The deification of mothers not only delegitimises the relationship fathers, neighbours, friends, grandparents, teachers and carers have with children, it also diminishes the immense worth and value of these relationships.
(4) I am afraid we will see more personal deification in the media in the future,” Zhang said.
(5) The deification of Mao happened just as Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms once again made chaos, inequality and corruption visible in China.
(6) "I don't support the hypocrisy, deification, pharaohisation, and the repetition of the mistakes of the past 30 or even 60 years," he says during its most controversial sequence, in a veiled reference to the dictatorships of Hosni Mubarak, Anwar Sadat and Gamal Abdel Nasser, a strongman era to which some seek a return.
Edification
Definition:
(n.) The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
(n.) A building or edifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure anyone – even "so-called literary critics" such as me – wants a return to the wicked old days, when a literary judgment was passed down, de haut en bas , for the edification of the reading public.
(2) Eight of the 16 and their long-suffering partners waltzed and tangoed for our delight and certainly not our edification.
(3) When not singing his heart out for the edification of Keith Richards, the pre-fame Shaky is to be found playing benefit gigs for the Communist party of Great Britain, organised by Barrett, who "was and still is a card-carrying communist", even encouraging Shaky and band to work up a rockabilly version of The Red Flag.
(4) These results suggest that somatostatin might play a regulatory (inhibitory) role on the cellular proliferation which leads to the blastema edification.
(5) The sparse details mentioned in the report about setting up refugee camps, dispatching reconnaissance teams, and offering safe haven to exiled North Korean leaders are too vague to be of much edification.
(6) For one thing, Reith thought that “pleasing relaxation after a hard day’s work” was just as vital a building block of the rounded, balanced citizen as programmes of “edification and wider knowledge” – indeed, that to have one without the other would be culturally hurtful.
(7) To the adult, these activities may seem trivial, frivolous, and removed from the "real world," but to the adolescent, they are an important source of self-esteem during a critical and volatile period of self-concept edification.
(8) Mutation kat 80 specifically hits catalase anabolism, as no significant variations were observed for the edification of the respiratory system and (apo)cytochrome c peroxidase production.
(9) The taxonomy identifies eight basic categories: disclosure, question, edification, acknowledgement, advisement, interpretation, confirmation, and reflection, which are defined by three principles of classification.
(10) The non proportional changes in PER and PPV as temperature rises revealed that an increasing part of the ingested aminoacids were used for synthesis of fat, non for proteins edification.
(11) This hypothesis proposes the existence of three factors, two growth factors referred to as "stromally derived growth factor" (SDGF) and "epithelially derived growth factor" (EDGF), and one inhibiting factor, "epithelially derived inhibiting factor" (EDIF), which together modulate the replicative and transcriptional processes of the prostate.
(12) The "gliogenic" participation in the edification of granulomas may produce peculiar morphological features especially in the central nervous system, and perhaps more than elsewhere, pseudotumoral features.