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Meanings of apotheosis in English
Glorification of a subject to divine level.
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Examples for "saint"
Examples for "saint"
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Not everyone could be a saint; nor was relief work a religion.
2
The church is built upon the grave of the eminent saint, Miniato.
3
It is particularly menacing on the night after our national saint's day.
4
And yet the saint and the prophet do not live in vain.
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The training of the athlete is not the training of the saint.
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In the winter it was cozy; in the summer it was ideal.
2
Their current deals expire next year, which Wenger called an ideal situation.
3
On that note, the Cam McCarthy situation is clearly far from ideal.
4
Far from ideal, however, is the timing of the change in leadership.
5
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.
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Not that any given spud is ever such a paragon of form.
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The wickedness of London appals me; and yet I am no paragon.
3
She was the only girl in the world that deserved his paragon.
4
Even that paragon of fiscal rectitude, Germany, has debt of 68 percent.
5
And she still thinks that he was the paragon of all virtues.
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Two nonpareil columns had to be filled, and I was getting along.
2
For countless Americans, the United States military epitomizes nonpareil technological advantage.
3
There was a speck of invisible dirt on one of those nonpareil types.
4
We are the people, the nonpareil; there are none like us beneath the sun!
5
It is the very thing to make you the nonpareil husband that Arabella dreams about.
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Might live here for a thousand years and he'd still be the nonesuch of the back-blocks.
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He had the Lemals' pluck inside him though, for all his unhandy looks; and, of course, his mother thought him a nonesuch.
3
These monsters, frenzied, mush-minded bloodletters, peeked through into the world: nonesuch creatures, unspoken, forbidden miracles of our species, chattering and howling their Jabberwocky.
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Through the barred door the scream of the mare Nonesuch answered it.
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Photo: Nonesuch Records But it's more than just an album of pretty tunes.
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As his assistant in the silver-shop, Don Platón has a boy who is a nonsuch.
2
He wanted, forsooth, to boast of a nonsuch!
3
You come home with me some time, and every day you shall taste a nonsuch, my boy.
4
You are a nonsuch, I suppose.
5
He lived at Nonsuch Park, in Surrey, not many miles from London, on the road to Epsom.
Usage of apotheosis in English
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The experiments of Hertz are in fact the apotheosis of that theory.
2
For Kheyr-ed-Din this was in a sense the apotheosis of his career.
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It is the triumph of insignificance, the apotheosis of foppery and folly.
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The creation of Tamburlaine is the apotheosis of man on the earth.
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Is it not the apotheosis of egotism, of Self beyond the grave?
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The composition is the apotheosis of domestic comfort, conjugal peace, and gluttony.
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Christian character is never formed by acquiescence in, or apotheosis of wrong.
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And around, above, beneath, the pervading mediocrity, the apotheosis of the average.
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The apotheosis of the modern novelized presidency was that of Ronald Reagan.
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The banquet was what it could not fail to be, an apotheosis.
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He takes a chair and greedily reads the apotheosis of David Lockwin.
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His apotheosis came with Neuschwanstein, started in 1869 atop a wooded outcrop.
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Author found porcini, the apotheosis of edible mushrooms, and bought a basket.
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It is the apotheosis of the Japanese talent for imitation and re-creation.
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There was an uneasy continuity between these two moments of creative apotheosis.
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But the band's experimentalism usually achieves an arresting apotheosis in the flesh.
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