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/əpˌɑθiˈoʊsəs/ Listen

noun

Apotheosis n. pl.

The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.

Glorification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery."

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Etymology of 'Apotheosis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... This was the apotheosis of Agnes Anne. Her life dates from that evening in our kitchen, even as mine did from the afternoon when one half the fools of Eden Valley were letting off shot-guns at the back windows of Marnhoul Great House, while Miss Irma withstood the others on the threshold ...

— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett

... an apotheosis of Georgia as a Union State. He said: "Mr. Speaker, Georgia wants peace, but she would not for the sake of peace yield any of her own or the nation's rights. A new career of prosperity is now before her; new prospects, bright and fair, open to her ...

— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall

... unrest lies in that going out of ourselves which we call by the name of love. There be things masquerading about the world, and profaning the sacred name of love by taking it to themselves, which are only selfishness under a disguise. But true love is the annihilation, and therefore the apotheosis and glorifying, of self; and in that annihilation lies the secret charm which brings all ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... room. It was so familiar that it seemed like a sub-consciousness, yet he found no name for this friendly odor for a bewildered minute or two. Little by little, however, it grew upon him, that it was the onion—that fragrant and kindly bulb which had attained its apotheosis in the cuisine of Nora Finnegan of sacred memory. He opened his languid eyes, to see if, mayhap, the plant had not attained some more ...

— The Shape of Fear • Elia W. Peattie

... saw His royal court outrivaling that of Solomon, and becoming the center of the world. He saw Jerusalem as the capital of the world, and He, Jesus of Nazareth, son of David the King, as its Ruler, its hero, its demi-god. The very apotheosis of human success showed in the picture of Himself and His Beloved Israel ...

— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka

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