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- verb Present participle of
apotheosize .
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Examples
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He did this without apotheosizing or castigating him.
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Because JSB is not an act of soberly yet resolutely approached duty undertaken in the defense of homeland and loved ones, nor is it a “resistance” to anything – it is a grand gesture of self-apotheosizing passion experienced within the giddy thrill of attacks carried out in a quest for both mortal and afterlife glory.
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But when was the university system proven to turn out anything other than the most sinister kind of self-important, self-apotheosizing intellect?
Matthew Good, Blowhard ALW 2006
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Because JSB is not an act of soberly yet resolutely approached duty undertaken in the defense of homeland and loved ones, nor is it a “resistance” to anything – it is a grand gesture of self-apotheosizing passion experienced within the giddy thrill of attacks carried out in a quest for both mortal and afterlife glory.
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Jackson, apotheosizing an uncle, his mother's brother, who had stood at the head of the
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And in what land has the apotheosizing imagination been more active than in Japan?
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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While posing as the apostle of light, you will obscure the scintillations of the stars because the sun is hid; while apotheosizing Happiness you would banish Hope, that mother of which it is born.
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Jackson, apotheosizing an uncle, his mother's brother, who had stood at the head of the Confederate naval establishment in Europe and had fitted out the Confederate cruisers, as the noblest and purest man he had ever known,
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Jackson, apotheosizing an uncle, his mother's brother, who had stood at the head of the Confederate naval establishment in Europe and had fitted out the Confederate cruisers, as the noblest and purest man he had ever known,
Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Indeed, the idea of a three-hour brunch is not only enjoyable because it conjures up images of whole-wheat apple pancakes and huevos rancheros (sans avocado - thanks, Marathon), but because it speaks to the invariable apotheosizing of that truly great meal.
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