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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again we have seen only too clearly in some other countries what can happen if you personify and almost deify the State.
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But Albert Einstein has been deified by the scientific community and society at large.
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But because both systems deify one aspect of reality they produce problems which are insoluble within their own terms of reference.
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He was deified in the Middle Kingdom and a shrine for his cult was build on Elephantine Island.
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If they ruled well, emperors were deified - consigned to the place where the gods lived.
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It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome.
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Nothing could have been more natural than to deify this powerful and benevolent force.
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There was already by now a political and religious system, whose primitive beliefs deified the various forces of nature.