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Apotheosis
Apotheosis meaning
The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification. | Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status. | A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
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Apotheosis is the term used for the elevation of someone to a divine status.
Late in “Black Is King” comes a maudlin apotheosis: The Simba stand-in, sporting a leopard-print dinner jacket, arises to heaven inside Johannesburg’s apartheid-era Ponte Tower.
The Marzal is the apotheosis of the original Lamborghini ethos.
Reich’s opus was a fitting apotheosis to the adult who as a child fantasized about having sex with everything from the farm animals to his nursemaid to his mother.
The Murdoch approach to empire building has reached its apotheosis in the Trump era.
As a technical point, I don’t believe a cancer can have an apotheosis.
Instead she took refuge in family: her dad, absent for her Vancouver apotheosis due to a family squabble, was finally there alongside her two sisters.
It is the apotheosis of bland.
Another panel shows the funeral and apotheosis of the deified Titus.
Apotheosis of Nero, c. after 68. Artwork portraying Nero rising to divine status after his death.
Has been described as "the apotheosis of the Singspiel", Die Zauberflöte was denigrated during the 19th century as confused and lacking in definition.
However, death is also viewed as a path towards apotheosis in Shintoism as can be evidenced by how legendary individuals become enshrined after death.