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apotheoses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apotheosis \Ap`o*the"o*sis\ (?; 277), n. pl. Apotheoses. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ? to deify, ? a god.]
The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, ``the gods;'' deification.
Glorification; exaltation. ``The apotheosis of chivalry.''
--Prescott. ``The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery.''
--F. Harrison.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of apotheosis English)
WordNet
See apotheosis
n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, nonesuch, nonsuch]
the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) [syn: deification, exaltation]
[also: apotheoses (pl)]
Usage examples of "apotheoses".
Until the war ended his career as a producer in 1914, he made a great number of "transformations, tricks, fairy tales, apotheoses, artistic and fantastic scenes, comic subjects, war pictures, fantasies and illusions.
Where the rambling mansions were fading apotheoses to the real money, the blooded first famiRes who migrated just a little west to avoid the new rich?
And on that altar, and in that glory, the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow.
And upon that altar and in that glory, the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, mysteriously, behind a cloud to Cosette, in flashing flame to Marius, there was the ideal, the real, the rendezvous of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow.
But, if we look more closely, we shall not be slow to perceive that no work is more homogeneous than that of Flaubert, and that, in truth, the Education Sentimentale differs from Salammbô only as a Kermesse of Rubens, for example, or a Bacchante of Poussin differs from the apotheoses or the Church pictures of the painters themselves.