What's the difference between deified and deifier?
Deified
Definition:
(a.) Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.
(imp. & p. p.) of Deify
Example Sentences:
(1) Built in 1869, the shrine deifies almost 2.5 million Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in wars since the second half of the 19th century.
(2) Well, there’s one boss the Curia surely won’t be deifying this Christmas.
(3) You become aware of a colossal idea,” he wrote after visiting the International Exhibition, showcase of an all-conquering material culture: “You sense that it would require great and everlasting spiritual denial and fortitude in order not to submit, not to capitulate before the impression, not to bow to what is, and not to deify Baal, that is, not to accept the material world as your ideal.” However, as Dostoevsky saw it, the cost of such splendour and magnificence was a society dominated by the war of all against all, in which most people were condemned to be losers.
(4) The assembled clerics were accused of “spiritual Alzheimer’s”, “the terrorism of gossip”, lack of self-criticism, supposing themselves indispensable, of forming cliques, fixating on office politics, of “out of jealousy or cunning [finding] joy in seeing another fall, rather than helping him up and encouraging him”, or “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism” and, of course, of “the sickness of deifying leaders”.
(5) We mustn’t deify him at all from that point of view, he was a man of many flaws, but he was a man of great genius, great charm, great humour and he was, in his quiet moments, fascinating.” Joining the greats of boxing past and present who took to social media to voice tributes to Ali, the former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson tweeted: “God came for his champion.
(6) The earlier version said "reified" where "deified" was meant.
(7) He was, after all, born into a family of independent spirit, to a scientist father, who was also a political radical who deified the environment.
(8) And perhaps this desire to deify the singer, to stress her purity and goodness, reflected something prevalent at that time, namely an anxiety about the moral status of singing, the probity of performance, of The Stage.
(9) Some do and are deified as supreme beings, but to look to celebrity to provide social mobility is not good enough.
(10) I know that youth is deified, but I stress about FOMO and envy the Instagrammed social lives of others.
(11) In Chinese cosmology, cosmic elements have been deified and assigned life-forms.
(12) It was easier to let defence lawyers pronounce that " respectable women in India aren't raped ", and gurus on television blame or deify the fairer sex.