apotheosis

They called it the “Attitude Era,” and in retrospect it represented the absolute apotheosis of pre-millennium x-treme marketing.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The Portuguese design genius for mixing the pious with playfully overelaborated touches reaches its apotheosis at this Unesco World Heritage site—Portugal’s equivalent of France’s monumental Cathedral of Chartres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Scripture does not record the birth date of Jesus Christ, and so early Christian scholars spent centuries wrangling over when to celebrate this most important apotheosis.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

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

After several rounds of refinement in the Langley wind tunnels, the Mustang achieved its apotheosis with the P-51D.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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

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