divinization
/ˌdɪvɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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?"
- "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[.]"
Etymology
From divine + -ization.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable