Definition of Lionizes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of lionize) ¹

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Definition of Lionizes

1. lionize [v] - See also: lionize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionizes

lionise
lionised
lioniser
lionisers
lionises
lionish
lionising
lionism
lionisms
lionization
lionizations
lionize
lionized
lionizer
lionizers
lionizes (current term)
lionizing
lionlike
lionly
lions
lionship
liothyronine
liotrix
liottite
lip-
lip-gloss
lip-lock
lip-read
lip-smacking

Literary usage of Lionizes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Oxonian in Thelemarken; Or, Notes of Trave in Southwestern Norway in by Frederick Metcalfe (1858)
"... gone— The Ethnographic Museum—An inexorable professor- lionizes a big-wig—The stone period in Denmark- England's want of an ethnographical collection—A ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Mrs. Thrale also is charmed with her novel, and lionizes her to her heart's content, but good-naturedly attacks her morbid shyness. ..."

3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"It is unnec- cessary to say anything of the numerous instances in which society not only winks at the grossest crimes, but actually lionizes the criminal. ..."

4. Principles of Secondary Education by Paul Monroe (1914)
"If, on the other hand, the sentiment of the school favors disorder and lionizes the wrongdoer, the discipline becomes a pitched battle between the ..."

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