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Edifies vs Deifies - What's the difference?

edifies | deifies |

As verbs the difference between edifies and deifies

is that edifies is while deifies is .

edifies

English

Verb

(head)
  • (edify)

    • Anagrams

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    edify

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To build, construct.
  • * , III.i:
    • That Castle was most goodly edifyde , / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde
  • To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
  • * Gibbon
    • It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
  • * 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455
    • That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
    (Francis Bacon)

    Related terms

    * edification * edificator * edifier * edifying

    Anagrams

    *

    deifies

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deify)

    • Anagrams

    *

    deify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a god of (something or someone).
  • To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

    • Synonyms

    * (to make a god of something): apotheosize, exalt, idealize

    Related terms

    * deific * deification * deified

    Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule