apotheosis
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
apotheosis
- The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
- Synonyms: deification
- 1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, p. 75:
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- 2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, p. 176:
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- Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
- Synonyms: exaltation, glorification
- The turn of the century saw the apotheosis of digital technology.
- 1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24:
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- A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
- Synonyms: apex, paragon
- 1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, 1990, p. 232:
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- The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
- Synonyms: apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle
- The apotheosis of her career was her appointment as chairman.
- (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
- Synonyms: death
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
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- (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.
- French: apothéose
- German: Gottwerdung, Apotheose
- Italian: apoteosi, deificazione, divinizzazione
- Portuguese: apoteose, deificação, endeusamento
- Russian: обожествле́ние
- Spanish: apoteosis
- German: Vergötterung, Apotheose, Verherrlichung, Vergöttlichung
- Italian: esaltazione, apoteosi, delirio, glorificazione, incensamento, magnificazione
- Portuguese: apoteose
- Russian: прославле́ние
- Russian: вознесе́ние
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