apotheosizing

verb

present participle of apotheosize
as in exalting

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  1. exalting
  2. canonizing
  3. honoring
  4. lionizing
  5. worshipping
  6. magnifying
  7. respecting
  8. dignifying
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  • Her dense imagery, exalting family and the Black communities of her native Columbus, Ohio, made her one of America’s great storytellers in any medium.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
  • This has been an awesome showcase of American community, with our own USMNT support and other countries’ diasporas springing up exalting watch parties all over the place.
    — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 19 July 2026
Definition of exalting
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  • From ancient epics to contemporary headlines, humans have spent centuries canonizing courage as a rare and admirable virtue.
    — Cynthia Pury, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Ryan believes that canonizing Kirk as the patron saint of MAGA may have backfired in a subtle but important way.
    — Ryan Broderick, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of canonizing
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  • Under the agreement, Prime Video will stream the annual awards honoring the best in TV for free to all audiences, including nonsubscribers, in more than 240 countries and territories.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • But during the 1960s and in subsequent decades, a growing patient rights movement embraced the importance of informed consent for honoring patients’ autonomy.
    — Jennifer Schlinger, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of honoring
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  • In the early days of the war, Union troops from Boston had borrowed the familiar melody of a religious camp meeting song and added new lyrics lionizing John Brown, the leader of the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).
    — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
  • That brings us back to the folly of lionizing Kent as a conscientious objector to Trump and the president’s hawkish foreign policy as of late.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
Definition of lionizing
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  • These young men feared that worshipping in Hebrew, which many congregants did not understand, was driving away the next generation of Jews.
    — Ashley Walters, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
  • These objects can shed light on how people were worshiping at the time, with gifts often offered in exchange for divine assistance.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of worshipping
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  • The enormous cluster acts as a gravitational lens, bending and magnifying light from objects behind it.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Being prepared to pitch daily is, thus magnifying Blubaugh’s meticulous routine.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of magnifying
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  • His confrontations with the president were political and centered on his respecting the Haitian Constitution, including the debate over when Moïse’s presidential term was supposed to end.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The Sparrows’ survival under Nazi questioning depended on the Hungarians handing them over to law-respecting German military officers, rather than the murderous Gestapo.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of respecting
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  • This deeply affecting memoir, which is strung like a wire between the alienation of the assembly line and the dignifying promise of literature, documents his experience.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of dignifying
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“Apotheosizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosizing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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