Sample sentences for APOTHEOSIS

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Definition

model of excellence; or best point in one's development

or more rarely:

to glorify or idealize; or to elevate a person to the status of a god

I cannot depend upon my memory to say that even his Desecnt from the Cross or his Apotheosis of the Virgin exceeded these measures.
David McCullough -- John Adams

This is the fifth race whose apotheosis we have watched.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
You will have an apotheosis.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
It is the apotheosis of Amy.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Your goal is a democratic empire, the world-state, the apotheosis of the principle of the nation-state on a universal plane.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Virginity isn't an apotheosis.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
Part 1 Chapter 2 Subsection 5 — Apotheosis.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
In the barracks, the grand forgetfulness had begun among the freshmen as we recognized the imminence of our apotheosis from plebes to upperclassmen.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Thus a mild sort of apotheosis took place in his fancy, whilst she still lived and breathed within his own horizon, a troubled creature like himself.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
This transformation of man into God is called apotheosis.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
They laugh and hunt, and there is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis—what a transfiguration effected by love!
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
As a way to arrive at the truth, exactitude and methodology are, in the end, far inferior to vision and apotheosis.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what might have been parsecs in all directions.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
In the midst of the excitement of the family the scandalization of Ursula, the joy of the people cramming the street to watch that apotheosis of squandering.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
What an apotheosis!
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Julius Caesar, and other Emperors after him, had the like Testimony; that is, were Canonized for Saints; now defined; and is the same with the Apotheosis of the Heathen.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
It was as if all their individual five senses had become one organ of looking, like an apotheosis, the words that flew among them wind- or air-engendered Is that him?
William Faulkner -- Light in August
Maester Thomax's Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen from Exile to Apotheosis, with a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons had not been so fortunate.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

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