Apotheosis Synonyms

ə-pŏthē-ōsĭs, ăpə-thēə-sĭs
The act of raising to a high position or status or the condition of being so raised
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. exaltation
  2. aggrandizement
  3. elevation
  4. ennoblement
  5. deification
  6. glorification
  7. enshrinement
  8. fetishization
  9. upthrust
Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ideal
  2. paragon
  3. nonpareil
  4. saint
  5. nonesuch
  6. nonsuch

Words Related to Apotheosis

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Apotheosis Sentence Examples

  • The city is in many ways a cultural feast, the very apotheosis of hybridity.

  • Apotheosis can mean nothing to those who hold that a man may be reborn as a god, but still needs redemption, and that men on earth may win redemption, if they are brave enough.

  • Tiberius appears to have received the news with indifference, if not with satisfaction; he absented himself from the funeral, and refused to allow her apotheosis; her will was suppressed for a long time and only carried out, and the legacies paid, by Caligula.

  • Surely this is the ultimate apotheosis of free market thinking.

  • The Romans had, up to the end of the Republic, accepted only one official apotheosis; the god Quirinus, whatever his original meaning, having been identified with Romulus.

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