Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of heroes, practised by ancient nations of antiquity; hence, reverence paid to heroes or great men, or to their memory.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
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Examples
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Thomas Carlyle, in his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, assembled a team whose members might also have set off dismay in Carshalton.
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Heroes are seldom given to hero-worship, but among those of that young land, young as he was, he was accounted an elder hero.
Chapter 1 2010
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Together, Hilliard and Rathman produce a sagacious survey of the tradition of hero-worship, and foster insightful tension between conventional and unorthodox imagery of virility.
Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20) Bill Bush 2011
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Thomas Carlyle, in his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, assembled a team whose members might also have set off dismay in Carshalton.
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Together, Hilliard and Rathman produce a sagacious survey of the tradition of hero-worship, and foster insightful tension between conventional and unorthodox imagery of virility.
Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20) Bill Bush 2011
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Together, Hilliard and Rathman produce a sagacious survey of the tradition of hero-worship, and foster insightful tension between conventional and unorthodox imagery of virility.
Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20) Bill Bush 2011
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Now this is no doubt a very comforting idea for those of us who harbor fantasies of romantic individualism and hero-worship, but I don't think it's the way architecture actually gets made in the real world.
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Lacking any argument of any substance, the troll is reduced to pretending that exaggerrated caricatures of hero-worship are real, for the purpose of ridiculing the straw characters who hold those phony beliefs.
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Stroud (the Bartimaeus Trilogy) explores the consequences behind legend-worthy acts of glory and the power and peril of blind faith and hero-worship.
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Mr. Jeal is similarly generous to the demons that drove Henry Morton Stanley and puts his search for, and hero-worship of, Livingstone in context, making his famous staged meeting, "resplendent in pith helmet and white flannels," mounted on a stallion, with the Stars and Stripes flying, touching and admirable rather than vainglorious.
To the Source Judith Flanders 2011
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