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• Julia seems to have died as a result of a pregnancy (AD 91), after which she was deified, and her ashes placed in the temple of the deified Flavians. —  PhDiva
• The American plutocracy was magnified, deified, and consecrated to the task of making the world safe for democracy. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• In our age it is hard to conceive why their most masculine men should be deified, and all their gods represented as the most perfect of bodily development, while at the same time the finest physical specimens of manhood were doomed to a life of the most rigorous continence. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• Political institutions are to be less and less deified, and to shrink into a narrower space; and just in proportion as a wiser estimate of government prevails, the present frenzy of political excitement will be discovered and put to shame I have now said what I do not mean by the elevation of the laboring classes. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• [66] Nor was this all; Roman emperors were habitually deified, and men in the sixteenth century seemed to pay to their kings while alive the Divine honours which Romans paid to their emperors when dead. —  Henry VIII.

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