apotheosis

Mr. Rood tells us, that the plantation model reached “the apotheosis of the form.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Borglum believed the American political system was the apotheosis of human civilization, and he wanted his sculpture to stand alongside the Parthenon and pyramids as testaments to grand civilizations and cultures.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

Cooper impressively mimics Bernstein’s movements in a performance of the apotheosis of Mahler’s Second Symphony at the Ely Cathedral in London, which Bernstein filmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

For Johnson to now be speaker of the House feels as if it is the apotheosis of his political career and aspirations.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023

In the midst of the excitement of the family the scandalization of Úrsula, the joy of the people cramming the street to watch that apotheosis of squandering.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And the things it forgets, the apotheoses and apocalypses it lets sift through its mesh!

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016

They are their own apotheoses, their own parodies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outraged public conscience extinguishes the fires of apotheoses such as these.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

Eagle of the apotheoses, what breath of Erebus has driven thee to me? or, flying from the Campus Martius, dost thou bring to me the soul of the last of the Emperors?

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

Pictures of battles, triumphs, apotheoses filled the galleries.

From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Ernst Von Dobschutz