The act or process of treating, regarding, or elevating someone or something to the status of a god or divine being.
From deify (from Latin deificare) + -ation (noun suffix marking an action or state). First used in English in the 1500s to describe religious practices of elevating humans to godhood.
Imperial Rome practiced 'deification' of emperors after death—it was political theater that literally made law-making power eternal, since technically the empire never lost its divine ruler.
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