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Definition of Lionizes
1. lionize [v] - See also: lionize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionizes
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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