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Hero worship   /hˈɪroʊ wˈərʃəp/   Listen
noun
Hero  n.  (pl. heroes)  
1.
(Myth.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
2.
A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person. "Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody."
3.
The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid. "The shining quality of an epic hero."
Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes. 1 "Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind."


Worship  n.  
1.
Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. (Obs.) "A man of worship and honour." "Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land."
2.
Honor; respect; civil deference. (Obs.) "Of which great worth and worship may be won." "Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee."
3.
Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. "My father desires your worships' company."
4.
The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. "God with idols in their worship joined." "The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship."
5.
Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration. "'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship."
6.
An object of worship. "In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair."
Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.





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... in this connection that the prevailing religions of Japan are Shinto and Buddhism, each, however, being sub-divided into many sects. The Shinto may be said to be indigenous to the country, and is also the official religion, being largely a form of hero worship; successful warriors are canonized as martyrs are in the Roman Catholic church. The Buddhist faith is borrowed from the Chinese, and was introduced about the sixth century. There may be any diversity of creeds among a people, extending even to idolatry. Creeds never came from ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou
... but by the populace as well; not only by the Prussians, but by the Bavarians and even the Austrians. You cannot realize what a tremendous factor he has become until you discover personally the Carlylean hero worship of which he is ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... notch or two higher, and then we went along in a humdrum way on that level, or even sank back till another great man was vouchsafed to us. Possibly the finest flower of this school of thought is Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship. Unscientific as this theory was, it had its beneficent effects, for those heroes or great men served as ideals, and the human mind requires an unattainable ideal. No man can be or do the best he is capable of unless he ...
— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte
... ask him to tell you about it," entreated Archibald. The boy was obviously consumed with curiosity and delight. Gabriella had never seen him so enthusiastic, so swept away by emotion. Already, she suspected, he had fallen a victim to the passion of hero worship, and O'Hara—the man who spoke of "idees"—was his hero! "I shall have to be careful," she thought. "I shall have to be very careful or Archibald will come ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... Progress, contradicted the assumption of the Tractarians that High Catholicity was an essential note of true religion. Gradually the young Fellow became aware that High Church and Low Church did not exhaust the intellectual world. He read Carlyle's French revolution, and Hero Worship, and Past and Present. He read Emerson too. For Emerson and Carlyle the Church of England did ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul


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