单词 | hero-worship |
释义 | hero-worshipv. transitive. To admire (a person one views as a hero) intensely, excessively, or uncritically. Cf. hero worship n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > make a hero of [verb] heroify1677 heroize1695 hero1762 hero-worship1857 1857 M. B. Betham-Edwards White House by Sea II. xxix. 9 Because Ross does not hero-worship Lindsay as you do, you think he hates him. 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two II. vi. 122 Tell him..that you hero-worship Sir Michael Cunningham, the statesman of the age. 1936 N. Marsh Death in Ecstasy vii. 86 Maurice hero-worshipped Father Garnette. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 21 I hero-worshipped him. 1999 Varsity 5 Nov. 33/1 He hero-worships his older friend, the well-respected..writer Adrien. Derivatives ˈhero-ˌworshipped adj. ΚΠ 1898 B. Gregory Side Lights v. 520 The most hero-worshipped of the hundred boys who constituted that little commonwealth. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xix. 224 The centre of an adoring family—secure, loved, hero-worshipped. 1992 Raritan Summer 158 Kirstein spent his war as a driver,..with no rank but great prestige: driving a jeep, at one stage, for a hero-worshipped General Patton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1857 |
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