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- verb Alternative spelling of
apotheosize .
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- verb deify or glorify
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Examples
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In it you remind me, menacingly, of the possibilities of progress, you posit that love is at best artificial, and you apotheosise the brain.
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The attempt to apotheosise human nature, to invest our kindred clay with theatrical glamour and to drape it from the property-room, this mythical creation of "a magnified non-natural man," what is it all but the perpetuation of the false psychology of the past?
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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The 'Girl Graduate,' with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosise 'that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt.'
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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