apotheosis

The use of the harp stood out, as did the harpsichord for Manon’s apotheosis as a courtesan in Act 3 and an organ for the church of St. Sulpice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Which brings me to what I believe is the modern apotheosis of the genre.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025

The day before Germany’s 1937 “degenerate” art exhibit debuted, Hitler opened another art show, also in Munich — an apotheosis of Germanic taste, the “great German art exhibition.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025

This revisionist history reached its apotheosis with a 2007 essay collection edited by the historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024

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

After the apotheoses of these heroes, the Grecian sailors invoked these fires by the names of Castor and Pollux, or the sons of Jupiter.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

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

Some have filled their skies with beings as little aerial as possible, or apotheoses of the Virgin and sundry saints.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various