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apotheosis Abraham Lincoln's apotheosis after his assassination transformed the controversial politician into the saintly savior of his country. əˌpɑθiˈoʊsəs

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(1) Transformation into a god. (2) The perfect example. In ancient Greece, historical figures were sometimes worshipped as gods. In Rome, apotheosis was rare until the emperor Augustus declared the dead Julius Caesar to be a god, and soon other dead emperors were being apotheosized as well. In older paintings you may see a heroic figure—Napoleon, George Washington, or Shakespeare, for example—being raised into the clouds, symbolizing his or her apotheosis. But today any great classic example of something can be called its apotheosis. You might hear it said, for example, that Baroque music reached its apotheosis in the works of J. S. Bach, or that the Duesenberg Phaeton was the apotheosis of the touring car

word	apotheosis
definition	(1) Transformation into a god. (2) The perfect example.
eg_sentence	Abraham Lincoln's apotheosis after his assassination transformed the controversial politician into the saintly savior of his country.
explanation	In ancient Greece, historical figures were sometimes worshipped as gods. In Rome, apotheosis was rare until the emperor Augustus declared the dead Julius Caesar to be a god, and soon other dead emperors were being apotheosized as well. In older paintings you may see a heroic figure—Napoleon, George Washington, or Shakespeare, for example—being raised into the clouds, symbolizing his or her apotheosis. But today any great classic example of something can be called its apotheosis. You might hear it said, for example, that Baroque music reached its apotheosis in the works of J. S. Bach, or that the Duesenberg Phaeton was the apotheosis of the touring car
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Apotheosis Dead Apotheosis Transformation God Perfect Abraham Lincoln's