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Idolise

verb
1.
Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol.  Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship.






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"Idolise" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shouts of noisy acclamation, Breathing savage expectation, Greet him while he takes his station Leisurely, disdaining haste; Now he doffs his tall sombrero, Fools! applaud your butcher hero, Ye would idolise a ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon

... head. To herself she whispered. "He may not idolise his past, yet he cannot escape from it." . . . And her thoughts might have travelled farther, but she had put the mare to a walk again and just then her ears caught an unaccustomed sound, or ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... how long she may stay there. The people idolise her, I understand. You know it is her privilege to be idolised; and of course they will persuade her to stay as long as they can. You seem disappointed at ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... no idea how long she may stay there. The people idolise her, I understand. You know it is her privilege to be idolised; and of course they will persuade her to stay as long as they can. You seem disappointed at ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon



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