Apotheosis

ˌæp.əˈθi.ə.sɪs

noun

the highest or best part of something; the culmination or climax

The word 'apotheosis' can be traced back to Greek roots meaning 'to deify' or 'to make a god.' It is often used to describe the highest point or peak of something, such as a person's career or an artistic achievement.

Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.

Stephen King

Insomnia

The American Ambassador also plans to throw a wreath into the sea.” So I decided, tentatively, that I would have Frank announce my apotheosis immediately following the wreath ceremony and the air show.

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

He was a man completely in control, and Larry suddenly knew this was his watershed moment, the apotheosis of his life.

King, Stephen

The Stand

Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Maester Thomax’s Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen from Exile to Apotheosis, with a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons had not been so fortunate.

George R. R. Martin

A Feast for Crows

They laugh and hunt, and there is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis—what a transfiguration effected by love!

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

"Galen appears uncertain whether Asklepius (as well as Dionysus) was originally a god, or whether he was first a man and then became afterwards a god; but Apollodorus professed to fix the exact date of his apotheosis.

Homer

The Iliad

To him she stood outside those fleshly attributes from which he had nothing to obtain, and in his heart she rose ever, and became farther removed from him after the magnificent manner of an apotheosis that is taking wing.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary