deify
verb
[ ˈdeɪɪfʌɪ ]
• worship or regard as a god.
• "she was deified by the early Romans as a fertility goddess"
Similar:
worship,
revere,
venerate,
reverence,
hold sacred,
pay homage to,
extol,
exalt,
adore,
immortalize,
divinize,
idolize,
apotheosize,
lionize,
hero-worship,
idealize,
glorify,
aggrandize,
put on a pedestal,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘make godlike in character’): from Old French deifier, from ecclesiastical Latin deificare, from deus ‘god’.
