Summit vs Apotheosis - What's the difference?
summit | apotheosis |
(countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
(countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
(transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
* 2012 , Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic , vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:
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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, 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 :
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.
As nouns the difference between summit and apotheosis
is that summit is (countable) a peak; the top of a mountain while apotheosis is the fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.As a verb summit
is (transitive|hiking|climbing|colloquial) to reach the summit of a mountain.summit
English
Noun
(en noun)- In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mt. Shasta.
- They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
Usage notes
Colloquially summit' is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a '''summit , such as the South Summit of (Mount Everest). These are distinguished by (topographic prominence) as ''subsummits'' (low prominence) or ''independent summits (high prominence).Synonyms
* acme, apex, peak, zenithDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
- Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited .
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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 !
