Definition of apotheosis in English:

apotheosis

nounPlural apotheoses əˌpɒθɪˈəʊsɪsəˌpɑθiˈoʊsəs

1The highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax.
事物发展的顶峰；巅峰；极致；高潮
his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career
扮演哈姆雷特是他事业的巅峰。
Example sentencesExamples
- Is 22 the apotheosis of world-weary sophistication?
- I have long sung his praises but his work on this play, a work he admits in a programme note is close to his heart, must rank as the apotheosis of his career so far, though I have to say I tremble as to what he will present us with next year.
- It's the apotheosis of frightening government power - the ability to take people away and lock them up without anyone knowing exactly who or precisely why.
- The apotheosis is not only musicians who can't play music, but singers who cannot sing - but I won't get into that.
- It's the apotheosis of the junk-yard-thrown-at-the-wall, but there aren't any pitchforks or old license plates; nothing but painted tin signs and restored neon.
- It seemed like every junior political appointee in every agency understood that his or her primary job was to extol his/her boss - the director, secretary or president - as the apotheosis of human virtue and wisdom.
- This is the supreme apotheosis of the oxymoron.
- William Blake's engravings at the end of his career are the apotheosis of engraving as a creative linear technique.
- ‘It was certainly the most satisfying moment of my life,’ he said later, the apotheosis of a career which had many highs and indelible lows.
- I don't believe, I never did actually, in the great apotheosis where everything collapses in one night you know, as the French says, ‘Le Grand Soir,’ the great evening.
- Finally, the urge to challenge any and all boundaries, no matter how unchangeable, finds its apotheosis in the repeated scenes of cast members hurtling themselves headlong into walls.
- Yet, if the professionalisation of politics is creating a narrower, more identikit type of politician, surely we see its apotheosis in the homogeneity of the Scottish parliament.
- For many, this record is the apotheosis of musical genius.
- In the realm of modern pop, it achieved a level of perfection that made it the apotheosis of its form.
- After the worldwide youth movement of the 1960's reached its apotheosis, it sounded quite good to have some ‘grown-ups in charge.’
- The real issue underlying, however, is the apotheosis of subjective freedom which both sides in the argument assume - for even the return to a natural ethic of family life must be a matter of individual ‘choice’.
- The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis.
- Was its brief stretch in the spotlight - two years from surfacing in Seattle to its apotheosis at Genoa - simply a passing fad, and its youthful, mainly middle-class army of protesters yesterday's children?
- Theme park rides are the apotheosis of theater.
- The ideology of the social reaches its apotheosis in the postmodern valorization of ‘Identity,’ and this paper seeks to show how the gated community is a concrete manifestation of this process.
Synonyms
culmination, climax, crowning moment, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenith, apex, acme, apogee, high point, highest point, height, high water mark
2The elevation of someone to divine status.
人的神明化
death spared Pompey the task of having to account for the apotheosis of Caesar
Example sentencesExamples
- If density is the soul of the city, this is its spiritual or, better, commercial apotheosis.
- Beginning with the presidential campaign of 1864 and ending with his shocking assassination, Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation.
- Theories of its origin aside though, it should be noted that few modern scholars treat this account of his apotheosis seriously.
- More important, allegory was deemed the best vehicle for representing apotheosis, the painter's access to immortal status, an idea integral to the project from the start.
- His famous objection to the apotheosis of the bald eagle as the new nation's symbol is characteristic.

Origin

Late 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun 'make a god of', from apo 'from' + theos 'god'.

Rhymes

chlorosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, halitosis, hypnosis, kenosis, meiosis, metempsychosis, misdiagnosis, mononucleosis, myxomatosis, necrosis, neurosis, osmosis, osteoporosis, prognosis, psittacosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, toxoplasmosis, trichinosis, tuberculosis

Definition of apotheosis in US English:

apotheosis

nounəˌpɑθiˈoʊsəsəˌpäTHēˈōsəs

1usually in singular The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.
事物发展的顶峰；巅峰；极致；高潮
his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career
扮演哈姆雷特是他事业的巅峰。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the realm of modern pop, it achieved a level of perfection that made it the apotheosis of its form.
- The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis.
- Yet, if the professionalisation of politics is creating a narrower, more identikit type of politician, surely we see its apotheosis in the homogeneity of the Scottish parliament.
- This is the supreme apotheosis of the oxymoron.
- I have long sung his praises but his work on this play, a work he admits in a programme note is close to his heart, must rank as the apotheosis of his career so far, though I have to say I tremble as to what he will present us with next year.
- The real issue underlying, however, is the apotheosis of subjective freedom which both sides in the argument assume - for even the return to a natural ethic of family life must be a matter of individual ‘choice’.
- The apotheosis is not only musicians who can't play music, but singers who cannot sing - but I won't get into that.
- The ideology of the social reaches its apotheosis in the postmodern valorization of ‘Identity,’ and this paper seeks to show how the gated community is a concrete manifestation of this process.
- I don't believe, I never did actually, in the great apotheosis where everything collapses in one night you know, as the French says, ‘Le Grand Soir,’ the great evening.
- It's the apotheosis of the junk-yard-thrown-at-the-wall, but there aren't any pitchforks or old license plates; nothing but painted tin signs and restored neon.
- Theme park rides are the apotheosis of theater.
- Was its brief stretch in the spotlight - two years from surfacing in Seattle to its apotheosis at Genoa - simply a passing fad, and its youthful, mainly middle-class army of protesters yesterday's children?
- Finally, the urge to challenge any and all boundaries, no matter how unchangeable, finds its apotheosis in the repeated scenes of cast members hurtling themselves headlong into walls.
- Is 22 the apotheosis of world-weary sophistication?
- It seemed like every junior political appointee in every agency understood that his or her primary job was to extol his/her boss - the director, secretary or president - as the apotheosis of human virtue and wisdom.
- After the worldwide youth movement of the 1960's reached its apotheosis, it sounded quite good to have some ‘grown-ups in charge.’
- For many, this record is the apotheosis of musical genius.
- It's the apotheosis of frightening government power - the ability to take people away and lock them up without anyone knowing exactly who or precisely why.
- William Blake's engravings at the end of his career are the apotheosis of engraving as a creative linear technique.
- ‘It was certainly the most satisfying moment of my life,’ he said later, the apotheosis of a career which had many highs and indelible lows.
Synonyms
culmination, climax, crowning moment, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenith, apex, acme, apogee, high point, highest point, height, high water mark
1. 1.1 The elevation of someone to divine status; deification.
  人的神明化
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beginning with the presidential campaign of 1864 and ending with his shocking assassination, Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation.
  If density is the soul of the city, this is its spiritual or, better, commercial apotheosis.
  Theories of its origin aside though, it should be noted that few modern scholars treat this account of his apotheosis seriously.
  His famous objection to the apotheosis of the bald eagle as the new nation's symbol is characteristic.
  More important, allegory was deemed the best vehicle for representing apotheosis, the painter's access to immortal status, an idea integral to the project from the start.

Origin

Late 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun ‘make a god of’, from apo ‘from’ + theos ‘god’.

单词	apotheosis
释义	Definition of apotheosis in English: apotheosis nounPlural apotheoses əˌpɒθɪˈəʊsɪsəˌpɑθiˈoʊsəs 1The highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax. 事物发展的顶峰；巅峰；极致；高潮 his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career 扮演哈姆雷特是他事业的巅峰。 Example sentencesExamples Is 22 the apotheosis of world-weary sophistication? I have long sung his praises but his work on this play, a work he admits in a programme note is close to his heart, must rank as the apotheosis of his career so far, though I have to say I tremble as to what he will present us with next year. It's the apotheosis of frightening government power - the ability to take people away and lock them up without anyone knowing exactly who or precisely why. The apotheosis is not only musicians who can't play music, but singers who cannot sing - but I won't get into that. It's the apotheosis of the junk-yard-thrown-at-the-wall, but there aren't any pitchforks or old license plates; nothing but painted tin signs and restored neon. It seemed like every junior political appointee in every agency understood that his or her primary job was to extol his/her boss - the director, secretary or president - as the apotheosis of human virtue and wisdom. This is the supreme apotheosis of the oxymoron. William Blake's engravings at the end of his career are the apotheosis of engraving as a creative linear technique. ‘It was certainly the most satisfying moment of my life,’ he said later, the apotheosis of a career which had many highs and indelible lows. I don't believe, I never did actually, in the great apotheosis where everything collapses in one night you know, as the French says, ‘Le Grand Soir,’ the great evening. Finally, the urge to challenge any and all boundaries, no matter how unchangeable, finds its apotheosis in the repeated scenes of cast members hurtling themselves headlong into walls. Yet, if the professionalisation of politics is creating a narrower, more identikit type of politician, surely we see its apotheosis in the homogeneity of the Scottish parliament. For many, this record is the apotheosis of musical genius. In the realm of modern pop, it achieved a level of perfection that made it the apotheosis of its form. After the worldwide youth movement of the 1960's reached its apotheosis, it sounded quite good to have some ‘grown-ups in charge.’ The real issue underlying, however, is the apotheosis of subjective freedom which both sides in the argument assume - for even the return to a natural ethic of family life must be a matter of individual ‘choice’. The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis. Was its brief stretch in the spotlight - two years from surfacing in Seattle to its apotheosis at Genoa - simply a passing fad, and its youthful, mainly middle-class army of protesters yesterday's children? Theme park rides are the apotheosis of theater. The ideology of the social reaches its apotheosis in the postmodern valorization of ‘Identity,’ and this paper seeks to show how the gated community is a concrete manifestation of this process. Synonyms culmination, climax, crowning moment, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenith, apex, acme, apogee, high point, highest point, height, high water mark 2The elevation of someone to divine status. 人的神明化 death spared Pompey the task of having to account for the apotheosis of Caesar Example sentencesExamples If density is the soul of the city, this is its spiritual or, better, commercial apotheosis. Beginning with the presidential campaign of 1864 and ending with his shocking assassination, Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation. Theories of its origin aside though, it should be noted that few modern scholars treat this account of his apotheosis seriously. More important, allegory was deemed the best vehicle for representing apotheosis, the painter's access to immortal status, an idea integral to the project from the start. His famous objection to the apotheosis of the bald eagle as the new nation's symbol is characteristic. Origin Late 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun 'make a god of', from apo 'from' + theos 'god'. Rhymes chlorosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, halitosis, hypnosis, kenosis, meiosis, metempsychosis, misdiagnosis, mononucleosis, myxomatosis, necrosis, neurosis, osmosis, osteoporosis, prognosis, psittacosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, toxoplasmosis, trichinosis, tuberculosis Definition of apotheosis in US English: apotheosis nounəˌpɑθiˈoʊsəsəˌpäTHēˈōsəs 1usually in singular The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax. 事物发展的顶峰；巅峰；极致；高潮 his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career 扮演哈姆雷特是他事业的巅峰。 Example sentencesExamples In the realm of modern pop, it achieved a level of perfection that made it the apotheosis of its form. The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis. Yet, if the professionalisation of politics is creating a narrower, more identikit type of politician, surely we see its apotheosis in the homogeneity of the Scottish parliament. This is the supreme apotheosis of the oxymoron. I have long sung his praises but his work on this play, a work he admits in a programme note is close to his heart, must rank as the apotheosis of his career so far, though I have to say I tremble as to what he will present us with next year. The real issue underlying, however, is the apotheosis of subjective freedom which both sides in the argument assume - for even the return to a natural ethic of family life must be a matter of individual ‘choice’. The apotheosis is not only musicians who can't play music, but singers who cannot sing - but I won't get into that. The ideology of the social reaches its apotheosis in the postmodern valorization of ‘Identity,’ and this paper seeks to show how the gated community is a concrete manifestation of this process. I don't believe, I never did actually, in the great apotheosis where everything collapses in one night you know, as the French says, ‘Le Grand Soir,’ the great evening. It's the apotheosis of the junk-yard-thrown-at-the-wall, but there aren't any pitchforks or old license plates; nothing but painted tin signs and restored neon. Theme park rides are the apotheosis of theater. Was its brief stretch in the spotlight - two years from surfacing in Seattle to its apotheosis at Genoa - simply a passing fad, and its youthful, mainly middle-class army of protesters yesterday's children? Finally, the urge to challenge any and all boundaries, no matter how unchangeable, finds its apotheosis in the repeated scenes of cast members hurtling themselves headlong into walls. Is 22 the apotheosis of world-weary sophistication? It seemed like every junior political appointee in every agency understood that his or her primary job was to extol his/her boss - the director, secretary or president - as the apotheosis of human virtue and wisdom. After the worldwide youth movement of the 1960's reached its apotheosis, it sounded quite good to have some ‘grown-ups in charge.’ For many, this record is the apotheosis of musical genius. It's the apotheosis of frightening government power - the ability to take people away and lock them up without anyone knowing exactly who or precisely why. William Blake's engravings at the end of his career are the apotheosis of engraving as a creative linear technique. ‘It was certainly the most satisfying moment of my life,’ he said later, the apotheosis of a career which had many highs and indelible lows. Synonyms culmination, climax, crowning moment, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenith, apex, acme, apogee, high point, highest point, height, high water mark 1.1 The elevation of someone to divine status; deification. 人的神明化 Example sentencesExamples Beginning with the presidential campaign of 1864 and ending with his shocking assassination, Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation. If density is the soul of the city, this is its spiritual or, better, commercial apotheosis. Theories of its origin aside though, it should be noted that few modern scholars treat this account of his apotheosis seriously. His famous objection to the apotheosis of the bald eagle as the new nation's symbol is characteristic. More important, allegory was deemed the best vehicle for representing apotheosis, the painter's access to immortal status, an idea integral to the project from the start. Origin Late 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun ‘make a god of’, from apo ‘from’ + theos ‘god’.
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