The word "deification" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the act of treating someone or something as a god or elevating them to divine status. Example: "The deification of historical figures often leads to a distorted understanding of their true actions and intentions." Alternatives include "divinization" or "godhood."
The most notable Republican success in the renaming wars, of course, has been the double deification of Ronald Reagan.
If that increased their chances of widespread deification, so much the better.
He presumably did not know that, like the Emperor Augustus, he was about to undergo deification.
And the British conductor Simon Rattle, showing no signs of self-importance after his recent deification as the next director of the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted an all-Haydn program in which every phrase gave a kick to the next.
The occult tendencies of the day led him to the ritualistic poetry of Stefan George, who had gathered a cult of disciples around him in Munich and devoted his mature years to the deification of a fifteen-year-old boy.
During the last days of 1963, at the height of the widowed First Lady's public deification, Pearson writes, with more wishfulness than evidence, that "resentment against Jackie is mounting" among Washington ladies who lunch.
While Mr. Daisey said he did not yet know exactly what he would say, he said he planned to deal with "the culture of deification and the realities of nostalgia, as well as the fact that people have been expressing such tenderness and affection for this human being because of their connection to his devices".
Here was the root of his difference with Wagner, who was self-absorbed on a Pharaonic scale, and whose idea of religion came dangerously close to self-deification.
Self-deification in a single afternoon.; 3. Virtual Sex, by Thomas Rang, Ph. D. Non-sticky self-gratification.; 4. How to Kill Yourself, by Tamara Reem.
In Norman Podhoretz's recent book, "The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are," he argues that the prophets saw idolatry as a form of "self-deification," a delusion that humans could become as gods and remake the world in their own image -- a delusion Mr. Podhoretz connects to self-reliant liberalism run amuck.
Then there is the near-deification of Mr. Jeter and Mr. Piazza.
