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Definition of Hero-worship
1. Verb. Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol. "Sam cannot hero-worship Sue "; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"
Generic synonyms: Adore
Specialized synonyms: Drool Over, Slobber Over
Derivative terms: Idol, Idol, Idol, Idolisation, Idolisation, Idol, Idol, Idol, Idolization, Idolization, Idolizer, Reverence, Reverent, Reverent, Worship, Worshiper, Worshipper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hero-worship
Literary usage of Hero-worship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"Carlyle's ' Hero-Worship ' made its first appearance as ... The style of 'Hero-Worship'
is clearer than that in most of the other masterpieces of Carlyle, ..."
2. Human Nature and the Social Order by Charles Horton Cooley (1922)
"... emulation—conformity, rivalry, and hero-worship. | Conformity may be defined
as the endeavor to tj maintain a standard set by a group. ..."
3. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... each one of us may best fortify and inspire what creative energy may lie in
his own soul.1 This is the lasting justification of hero-worship, ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1892)
"HARD ON HERO WORSHIP. This story has its parallel in the case of an inquisitive
admirer of a prominent American writer, who was anxious to learn something ..."
5. Thomas Carlyle: How to Know Him by Bliss Perry (1915)
"... namely, on Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, which were delivered
to fashionable London audiences in 1840 and were published in 1841. ..."
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