Word of the Day – Apotheosis

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. ”