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Definition
model of excellence; or best point in one's developmentor more rarely:
the elevation of 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