different between deification vs pumpkinification

English

Etymology

French déification

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

deification (usually uncountable, plural deifications)

1. The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis.
2. Excessive praise.
3. A deified embodiment.
   • 2013, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice:

     We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.

Synonyms

• (act of deifying): divinisation or divinization; apotheosis

Translations

Anagrams

• edification

English

Etymology

pumpkin +? -ification: a calque of the Ancient Greek ??????????????? (apokolokúnt?sis) via the Latin apocolocyntosis. From the title of the work Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, a satire on the deification of Claudius.

Noun

pumpkinification (uncountable)

1. The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
   • 1870, George Long, s.n. "Seneca, L. Annaeus", page 781 in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume III.

     Apocolocyntosis, is a satire against the emperor Claudius. The word is a play on the term Apotheosis or deification, and is equivalent in meaning to Pumpkinification, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.

   • 1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg,

     Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical example of officialdom's "laureate" criteria.

Antonyms

• (turning into a pumpkin): apotheosis, deification

Related terms

• pumpkin
• pumpkinless
• pumpkinseed

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