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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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"Apotheosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... absence of mind might cause great misfortunes. He thus almost forgot the trifling circumstance which had made him uneasy, and which he thought might after all have only been a freak of the imagination. Giving himself up to the sweets of a kind of continual apotheosis, he mounted his horse in the great courtyard, attended by noble pages, and ...

— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny

... to the supremacy of Dante's Heaven is no less beautiful: "Dante's apotheosis of Beatrice and the gradations of his own love and her loveliness by which, as by steps, he feigns himself to have ascended to the throne of the Supreme Cause, is the most ...

— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery

... foothold, showed the way to Oxford. Indeed, it was not until his regular scientific career was at an end, that the University of Oxford opened its portals to him. So, as he wrote to Professor Bartholomew Price on May 20, in answer to the invitation,] "It will be a sort of apotheosis coincident with my official death, which is imminent. In fact, I am dead already, only the Treasury Charon has not yet settled the conditions upon which I am to be ferried ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... handling, it has become a glorious song of praise on that inexpressible feeling which ennobles the soul and gives to it its highest sublimity, and which elevates even the senses into soul, while at the same time it is a melancholy elegy on its inherent and imparted frailty; it is at once the apotheosis and the obsequies of love. It appears here a heavenly spark, that, as it descends to the earth, is converted into the lightning flash, which almost in the same moment sets on fire and consumes the mortal being on whom it lights. ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

... Christian religion alone which unfolds to man the twofold mystery of his nature; others are as dark and as bright on either side of the pole. And Philosophy conspiring with Biology will not consent to the apotheosis of Man, unless he wear on his breast a symbol of his tail.... Au-revoir, Monsieur Pascal, Remember me ...

— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

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