Apotheosis vs False - What's the difference?
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The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
* 1986 , SRF Price, Rituals and Power , p. 75:
* 2002 , CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire , p. 176:
Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
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, passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
* 1974', Per Lord Hailsham, ' Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24 :
A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
* 1925 , (William Carlos Williams), '(Edgar Allan Poe)', In The American Grain , 1990, p. 232:
The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
Loosely, release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
(psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun apotheosis
is the fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.apotheosis
English
Noun
(apotheoses)- In Rome itself the official position was clear: the apotheosis of the emperor took place only after his death; this had to be officially recognized by the Senate, and only then did the emperor become a divus with an official cult.
- As a former mortal who underwent apotheosis , Hercules was important to the emperors.
- Thereafter, the caterpillar achieved a sort of posthumous apotheosis . From local authority to the Dorchester magistrates, from the Dorchester magistrates to a Divisional Court presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of England, from the Lord Chief Justice to the House of Lords, the immolated insect has at length plodded its methodical way to the highest tribunal in the land.
- In his despair he had nowhere to turn. It is the very apotheosis of the place and the time.
- Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing — straight up, leaps thy apotheosis !
Synonyms
* (making into a god) deification * (act of glorification) exaltation, glorification * (top point) apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle * (death) see also: deathfalse
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}