Usually means: Elevation to divine status; glorification.
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  1. apotheosis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apotheosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apotheosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apotheosis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apotheosis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apotheosis, apotheosis: Wordnik
  7. apotheosis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apotheosis: Wiktionary
  9. apotheosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apotheosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apotheosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apotheosis, apotheosis: Dictionary.com
  13. apotheosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Apotheosis (film), Apotheosis (series), Apotheosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Apotheosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. apotheosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. apotheosis: Rhymezone
  18. apotheosis: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  19. Apotheosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. apotheosis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. apotheosis: Free Dictionary
  22. apotheosis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. apotheosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  25. apotheosis: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. apotheosis: Legal dictionary

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  1. apotheosis: Encyclopedia

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  1. apotheosis: A Word A Day
  2. apotheosis: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Apotheosis: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Apotheosis: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
noun:  Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
noun:  A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
noun:  The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
noun:  (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
noun:  (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

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