Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or habit of idolizing; immoderate veneration or admiration. Also spelled
idolisation .
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- noun the act of
idolizing ,adoring orworshiping , especially toexcess
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of admiring strongly
- noun the act of worshiping blindly and to excess
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Examples
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Nor will you see any kind of idolization of the individual because we have not taught our people to believe but to think, to reason.
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(Contemporary theologians like Jean-Luc Marion argue that this deracinating "idolization" of God continues through Heidegger, notwithstanding Schelling's example and opposition.) [
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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But millennials reserve idolization for the Onion, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show.
Why the Jon Stewart Rally is my generation's Woodstock Alexandra Petri 2010
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The zombies, in their mindless absorption and idolization, stare at the band, unmoving, often lacking any facial expression or emotion, a drink forgotten in their hand.
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All I'm saying is that I personally think someone like the former is more deserving of our praise, idolization and adulation than someone like the latter.
Morgan Evans: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhhh. Morgan Evans 2011
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But millennials reserve idolization for the Onion, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show.
Why the Jon Stewart Rally is my generation's Woodstock Alexandra Petri 2010
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The idolization of the Eastern Jew passed into the idolization of the East itself—into a positive Jewish Orientalism.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Second person is hard to do successfully, but it works in this cautionarytale, vividly describing the idolization of a vampire and famous author.
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For all their pseudo - idolization of Ronald Reagan, they ignore one of his main posits; "do no harm to others in the party"
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It could not do other to a man estranged from a normal life who could only live on the idolization of his fans.
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