1832 The best or most highly developed example of something; the highest point or culmination, the acme.1832 Shall I not rather say, he is the Apotheosis of a Gentleman? S. T. Coleridge, Collected Letters (1971) vol. VI. 928
1883 I carried the history of bronze decoration in architecture to its zenith, under the Roman Cæsars; it is now my intention to trace its decline, until the use of it becomes again prominent in the Lombardic school, and reaches its apotheosis in Italy under the Renaissance or Cinque Cento. Journal of Society of Arts 7 September 917/2
1907 I venture to assert that there is not a well brought up reader who has not been beguiled in his youth by the myth of the Kind Action... Fifty years ago it was current every where and reached its apotheosis in Dickens' Great Expectations. Sunset Magazine November 39
1937 The famous 'Churrigueresque' architecture which reached its apotheosis in Mexico. Times Literary Supplement 6 March 175/2
1993 Suede are the apotheosis of the current Seventies revival. Arena May 26/2
2008 Growing up, Sarah Kagan loved her mother's matzo balls... 'They seemed to me the apotheosis of the form.' Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia) (Nexis) 30 April c1
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