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单词 hero-worship
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hero-worshipv.

Brit. /ˈhɪərəʊˌwəːʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈhɪroʊˌwərʃəp/, /ˈhiroʊˌwərʃəp/
Inflections: Present participle hero-worshipping, (chiefly U.S.) hero-worshiping; past tense and past participle hero-worshipped, (chiefly U.S.) hero-worshiped;
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hero worship n.
Etymology: < hero worship n. Compare earlier hero-worshipping n., hero-worshipping adj.
transitive. To admire (a person one views as a hero) intensely, excessively, or uncritically. Cf. hero worship n. 2.
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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.
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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).
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