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• n  the act of admiring strongly
• n  the act of worshiping blindly and to excess

• In general, I find this idolization of the dead revolting in its implication that the famous are perfect and only the perfect deserve to be mourned intensely.
• But this intensely private man was never quite comfortable with the idolization thrust upon him, and did not conform to the image of hero the public sought.
• Show business is about idolization.

• adoration
• idolisation

News & Articles

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• EDITORIAL: Let's be realistic here
  June 21, 2013: A poet once wrote “only God can make a tree” but there are times when such idolization must be put aside.
  June 21, 2013 - The Westerly Sun