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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



... shall be lying in my winding-sheet of infamy. I deprive my son of a good name, which I have stained, and the fortune of his mother, which I have lost. He knows nothing of all this,—my unfortunate child whom I idolize! We parted tenderly. He was ignorant, happily, that the last beatings of my heart were spent in that farewell. Will he not some day curse me? My brother, my brother! the curses of our children are ...
— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac
... the orphans idolize each other; but, by a psychological phenomenon, frequent with twins, they were almost always simultaneously affected; the emotion of one was reflected instantly in the countenance of the other; the same cause would make both of them start or blush, so closely did their ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... covenants in their right places, that when he speaks of the one he doth not jostle the other out of its place. O, to be so well enlightened as to speak of the one, that is the law, for to magnify the gospel—-and also to speak of the gospel so as to establish and yet not to idolize the law, nor any particulars thereof—-it is rare; and to be heard and found but ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
... and bear this ordeal for the time, as you may never in your life, have another experience like it. It shows you what we all think of you, to sit and idolize you ...
— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... perfect. Those who love the cold attitude of indifference may sing of Cato as perfect. Cicero was ambitious, and often unscrupulous in his ambition. He was a loving husband and a loving father; but at the end of his life he could quarrel with his old wife irrecoverably, and could idolize his daughter, while he ruined his son by indulgence. He was very great while he spoke of his country, which he did so often; but he was almost as little when he spoke of himself—which he did as often. In money-matters he was honest—for the times in which he ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope


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