apotheosis noun

/əˌpɒθ.iˈəʊ.sɪs/

/-ˌpɑː.θiˈoʊ-/ n [C usually singular] (plural apotheoses) formal

Definition

the best or most extreme example of something

Most people agree that her acting career achieved its apotheosis in this film.

Bad taste in clothes reached its apotheosis in the 1970s.

the apotheosis of sb

the act of making someone into a god

One of the large paintings showed the Apotheosis of the Emperor Trajan.

(Definition of apotheosis noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

to be worried and not relaxed

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