When a woman of a certain age wishes to attach a man forever, she begins by Deifying his defects, so as to cut off all possibility of rivalry; for a rival is never, at the first approach, aware of the super-fine flattery to which the man is accustomed.
"Modeste Mignon"
Honore de Balzac
And many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate, Deifying creatures naturally mortal; for though altogether to disown a divine nature in human virtue were impious and base, so again to mix heaven with earth is ridiculous.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
He who rightly feels its mystery and grandeur is in no danger of seduction from the falsehoods of religious systems, or of Deifying the principle of the universe.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.