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Idolize   /ˈaɪdəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Idolize

verb
(past & past part. idolized; pres. part. idolizing)
1.
Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol.  Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship.



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"Idolize" Quotes from Famous Books



... had never seen before, impressed us with his commanding presence and his manly and picturesque simplicity of dress. He looked as if his division might idolize him, as it was said they did. He seemed much annoyed at the Tenth Virginia Cavalry behind the wall, and at last summoned the commander of the infantry supports. Although Stevenson commanded, he wished me to assist at the audience; and we were at ...
— History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: Beverly Ford. • Daniel Oakey

... affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zephine, O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guerin-Boisseau, ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... absolutely to the woman he worships as I can. You have taken possession of me so wholly, I am not in the least master of myself any more. I don't know what I say or what I do. I am not worthy of you, I know. No man alive could be that. But no one else will idolize and reverence you as I do. Believe me when I say that, Celia! And how can you blame me, in your heart, for following you? 'Whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic



Words linked to "Idolize" :   idol, adore, idolizer, worship, hero-worship, slobber over, drool over, idolization, idolise



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