apotheosis

Noun

Meaning

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

Glorification; exaltation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

saint paragon nonesuch nonsuch ideal exaltation deification nonpareil acme cynosure model epitome quintessence height peak
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Antonyms

beginning base basis dung nadir fiend
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Hypernyms

model worship role model

Hyponyms

crackerjack class act humdinger jimdandy jimhickey

Derivatives

apotheoses

Examples

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! William McFee

From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis. Alberto Manguel

So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. Christopher Monckton

Apotheosis is not The origin of the major man. He comes, p>Compact in invincible foils, from reason, Lighted at midnight by the studious eye, Swaddled in revery, the object ofThe hum of thoughts evaded in the mind... Wallace Stevens

This moment was the apotheosis of the postmodern era - the era of images and perceptions. Martin Amis

The idea of the State being a sort of apotheosis of the People, their ultimate expression and good, was invented for the modern age by the German philosopher, Hegel, and both Karl Marx, the father of Communism, and Mussolini, the inventor of Fascism,... Dorothy Thompson

Close letter words and terms

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