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
  • Anything that isn’t good – of God – is exalting itself against the truth of God’s all-good nature.
    — Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 24 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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  • Measuring more than 10 feet by 9 feet, Amwan Agwe… (2026), for example, depicts green hills and blue waves alongside the skulls, candles, and fish that nod to Fèt Gede, Haiti’s annual festival honoring the spirits of the dead.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • That’s where the hotel is hosting an exhibit honoring the film with drawings, paintings, sculptures and behind-the-scenes footage that document how Radiator Springs Racers was brought to life.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 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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  • In Jennifer’s Body, Needy (Seyfried) is BFFs with the titular mean girl played by Fox, whose body becomes possessed by a succubus with a taste for teen boys after a botched sacrifice by a devil-worshipping boy band (led by Adam Brody).
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • 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
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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  • Perhaps the squad took his ball-respecting mantra to its logical extreme, seemingly reluctant to sully it by smashing it into the net, with Chelsea recording the biggest xG underperformance in the Premier League during his brief tenure.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Where traditional Instagram filters usually modify an existing photograph, generative AI can reconstruct facial features without respecting the biological limitations of the original face.
    — Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 13 Oct. 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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