undeify

English

Etymology

un- +‎ deify

Verb

undeify (third-person singular simple present undeifies, present participle undeifying, simple past and past participle undeified)

  1. (transitive) To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for undeify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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