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apotheosize
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ap·o·the·o·size  (p-th-sz, -pth--sz)
tr.v. ap·o·the·o·sized, ap·o·the·o·siz·ing, ap·o·the·o·siz·es
To glorify; exalt.
apotheosize, apotheosise [əˈpɒθɪəˌsaɪz]
vb (tr)
1. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) to deify
2. to glorify or idealize
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Verb1.apotheosizeapotheosize - deify or glorify                    
apotheose, apotheosise
deify - consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success"


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His oeuvre apotheosizes the common experience of losing track of time when lost in the internal calendar of a novel or a concerto, or when frozen before an image, like Keats before his Grecian urn.
Father & Son? by Miles, Jack / Commonweal
For three decades Benjamin Barber, a professor of political science at Rutgers University and director of the school's Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, has carried the banners of Rousseau and of the Thomas Jefferson who apotheosizes a nation of virtuous and politically vigilant freeholders (although, as we shall see, not the Jefferson who affirms the priority of individuals' rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness).
Uncontrollable Passion by Lomasky, Loren / Reason
The 1994 made-for-television L'eau froide (Cold water) is the antithesis of all that: at once a beautifully observed study of teenage frustration and an allegory of blocked revolt, it contains a magnificently sustained twenty-minute reverie that both dissolves and apotheosizes its narrative.
Irma Vep by Hampton, Howard / Artforum International
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