divinization

English

Etymology

From divine +‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪvɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

divinization (countable and uncountable, plural divinizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. The act or process of making divine.
   • 1873, Matthew Arnold, “Religion Given”, in Literature & Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […], →OCLC, section 3, page 37:

     [W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves?

   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:

     And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace […] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]

Alternative forms

• divinisation (British spelling)

Translations

act or process of making divine

• Finnish: jumalallistaminen (fi)
• French: divinisation (fr) f
• Greek: θεοποίηση (el) f (theopoíisi)
• Portuguese: divinização f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: divinización (es) f