apotheosis

[ uh-poth-ee-oh-sis, ap-uh-thee-uh-sis ]

/ əˌpɒθ iˈoʊ sɪs, ˌæp əˈθi ə sɪs /

the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.

the ideal example; epitome; quintessence: This poem is the apotheosis of lyric expression.

Origin of apotheosis

1570–80; < Late Latin < Greek. See apo-, theo-, -osis

That transformation of the brand seems now to have its apotheosis in the arrival of the Tour de France.

A British Start to the Tour de France Forces the English to Wonder: What Does Being English Mean Anymore? |Clive Irving |July 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Dance is a vehicle for personal expression, community storytelling, and the apotheosis of ceremony.

Challenging Religious Tradition for the Love of God — and the Love of Dance |Moral Courage |June 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
If life has such a thing as an apotheosis, it surely involves truffled capon.

The Queen of the French Kitchen |Katie Baker |March 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Over the course of these novels, the style becomes increasingly parsimonious, reaching its apotheosis in The Golden Bowl.

Henry James’s 1904 Sordid Little Sex Farce |Nathaniel Rich |January 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

These triumphs were seen as the apotheosis of human enterprise and might.

The 2013 Novel of the Year Is… |Nathaniel Rich |December 30, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
This apotheosis by the Imagination is the subject of my present lecture.

The Pleasures of England |John Ruskin
She saw her brother Asticot transfigured into the resplendent gentleman beyond her sphere, and sighed womanlike at my apotheosis.

The Belovd Vagabond |William J. Locke
Thus the apotheosis of man is the goal aimed at in all religious activity.

The Christ Myth |Arthur Drews
The characteristic of the modern movements par excellence is the apotheosis of the insignificant.

Robert Browning |G. K. Chesterton
Free henceforth from the service of sorrow, as are the immortals, he gloried in his apotheosis, majestically serene.

Froth |Armando Palacio Valds

apotheosis

/ (əˌpɒθɪˈəʊsɪs) /

the elevation of a person to the rank of a god; deification

glorification of a person or thing

a glorified ideal

the best or greatest time or event the apotheosis of De Niro's career

C17: via Late Latin from Greek: deification, from theos god