apotheosis vs saint

apotheosis

noun
  • Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death. 

  • The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification. 

  • A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief). 

  • 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). 

  • 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. 

  • Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status. 

saint

noun
  • One of the blessed in heaven. 

  • A person with positive qualities; one who does good. 

  • A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue. 

verb
  • To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint. 

prefix
  • A prefix attached to another term, used to create placenames. The resultant placename need not be associated with any religious saint character. 

How often have the words apotheosis and saint occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )