Word to the Wise: Apotheosis

An "apotheosis" (uh-pah-thee-OH-sis) is an exalted or glorified example. The word is derived from the Greek for "to deify."

Example (as used by John Brewer in The Pleasures of the Imagination): "Charles I’s court represented the English apotheosis of this Renaissance ideal of kingship."

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