Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who pays reverence to, or who entertains extravagant admiration for, a hero or heroes.
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Examples
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Yes, she was an incorrigible hero-worshiper, whether the person was merely beautiful or did things.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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In that part of his story, Caro turns Lyndon Johnson from hero-worshiper of his father into a sullen foe just as soon as his father's virtues make him lose his money.
Monstre Désacré Wills, Garry 1990
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How should they guess in me Tom the patriot, Tom the hero-worshiper?
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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Yes, she was an incorrigible hero-worshiper, whether the person was merely beautiful or did things.
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Once more she found the world "intensely interesting," for at sixty she was the same clinging vine, the same hero-worshiper, as at sixteen.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Irving was too much influenced by this absurd fashion and by his lack of scholarship to make a trustworthy book; but he gave at least a touch of naturalness and humanity to our first president, and set a new biographical standard by attempting to write as an honest historian rather than as a mere hero-worshiper.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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The mail brought him new acquaintances, and now and then a hero-worshiper lingered at the gate for a look.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902
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Every best man and woman is at heart a hero-worshiper.
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Lastly, he was a hero-worshiper at the shrine of his colonel, Fred
Winning the Wilderness Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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Yes, she was an incorrigible hero-worshiper, whether the person was merely beautiful or did things.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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