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Illustration vs Apotheosis - What's the difference?

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Illustration is a related term of apotheosis.


As nouns the difference between illustration and apotheosis

is that illustration is illustration while apotheosis is the fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

illustration

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
  • That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}
  • A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
  • A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org
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    apotheosis

    English

    Noun

    (apotheoses)
  • The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
  • * 1986 , SRF Price, Rituals and Power , p. 75:
  • 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.
  • * 2002 , CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire , p. 176:
  • As a former mortal who underwent apotheosis , Hercules was important to the emperors.
  • Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , 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 :
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • In his despair he had nowhere to turn. It is the very apotheosis of the place and the time.
  • 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) :
  • Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing — straight up, leaps thy apotheosis !
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (making into a god) deification * (act of glorification) exaltation, glorification * (top point) apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle * (death) see also: death