单词 | hero-worshipper |
释义 | hero-worshipperhero-worshipern. A person who engages in hero worship. Now chiefly: spec. a person who intensely, uncritically, or excessively admires a person that he or she views as a hero; a person with a tendency to such admiration. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > one who worships heroes hero-worshipper1741 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > reverence of a hero > one who hero-worshipper1840 hero-worshipful1868 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. v. 233 Those Hero-worshippers of the North and West, the Gauls and Suevi..did not, like the Greeks borrow this Idolatry from Egypt. 1840 Edinb. Rev. July 421 Mr Carlyle is a hero-worshipper, and energy is with him the indispensable, nay the exclusive, quality of heroism. 1865 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 278 I have seldom seen a foolisher hero-worshipper. 1922 Hermathena 19 225 The Achaeans..do not appear [in Homer] as hero-worshippers at all, with or without ‘crude ritual’. 1989 V. Glendinning Grown-ups (1990) iv. 52 Alice isn't servile. She's a hero-worshipper. 2010 Los Angeles Times 30 Dec. d1 While he's embraced by hero-worshipers as an exemplary Christian, he ignored or resisted religion until late in life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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