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Idolize   /ˈaɪdəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Idolize  v. t.  (past & past part. idolized; pres. part. idolizing)  
1.
To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.
2.
To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.


Idolize  v. i.  To practice idolatry. (R.) "To idolize after the manner of Egypt."





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"Idolize" Quotes from Famous Books



... job before, skilfully shaved one half of David's face, at each moment explaining the use of the weapon. "Why didn't you get a safety razor?" he demanded. The lad answered, "My cousin Walter uses this kind." I remember that he used to idolize Walt, as all the younger fellows did; if he still has some of the feeling there's hope for him. Knudsen made him shave the other half of his face himself—a botched job, but still David finished it. Randall remarked that safety razors were best ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French
... of greatness is baseness. They combine in perfection. Despise me, you who are despised. Nothing can be better. Degradation on degradation. What joy! I pluck the double blossom of ignominy. Trample me under foot. You will only love me the more. I am sure of it. Do you understand why I idolize you? Because I despise you. You are so immeasurably below me that I place you on an altar. Bring the highest and lowest depths together, and you have Chaos, and I delight in Chaos—Chaos, the beginning and end of everything. What is Chaos? A huge blot. Out of that ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... think the worst thing to contemplate is this—it's all happened before, how soon will it happen again? Fifty years after Waterloo Napoleon was as much a hero to English school children as Wellington. How do we know our grandchildren won't idolize Von Hindenburg the ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... the wonders that you have told me," answered Evelyn, as soon as she could recover the power of words, "my most poignant sorrow is, that I have no rightful claim to give a daughter's love to her whom I shall ever idolize as my mother. Oh, now I see why I thought her affection measured and lukewarm. And have I—I destroyed her joy at seeing you again? But you—you will hasten to console, to reassure her! She loves you still,—she will be happy at last; and ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... to the latest improvements, is now substituted a bureaucracy of despotic commissions? Shame upon those who sneered at the very name of her to whom they owed the wealth they idolize! who cry down liberty because God has given it to them in such priceless abundance, boundless as the sunshine and the air of heaven, that they are become unconscious of it as of the elements by which they live! Woe to those who despise the gift of God! Woe to those who have turned His grace into ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al


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