idealizationn.

1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 2 466 Is this irony?..Or poetical idealization?

1851 T. De Quincey Sketch from Childhood in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 150/1 The devotion gave grandeur and idealisation to the sorrow.

1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims i. 58 Our overpraise and idealization of famous masters.

1933 Amer. Econ. Rev. 23 285 Avoiding at the same time any excessive idealization of the peasant which the populistically inclined intellectuals often manifested.

1972 R. T. Denommé French Parnassian Poets i. 4 Their respective ideas on the idealization of beauty.

2006 H. Brocklehurst Who's Afraid of Children v. 122 The ideology of the volksmoeder..was thus assimilated into national culture. Though this idealization was distinctly different from real conditions, the image remained a powerful one.

1804 Lit. Mag. June 231/2 The author of the Odyssey would have attempted no such idealizations.

1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 702 This bust..is a frank idealization.

1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings Pref. 13 Poets and artists teach us by their beautiful idealizations that the objects around us are not mere objects of sense.

1931 J. Epstein in J. Epstein & A. L. Haskell Sculptor Speaks (1932) ix. 131 There is far more in Greek sculpture besides an idealisation of the human body.

1970 J. O. Bailey Poetry T. Hardy 6 Such idealizations may be mingled with remorse.

1999 J. Wood Broken Estate 90 Julia Stephen, a Victorian idealization of the wife and mother, was unselfish, an emotional wetnurse to her husband, devoted to good works outside the home.