Apotheosis (noun)
ap-oth-e-oh-sis
The highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax.
Late 16th century via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun ‘make a god of’, from apo ‘from’ + theos ‘god’.
Example sentences
“To listen to him you’d think he’d had some kind of apotheosis and someone had made him God. ”
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