lionize
verb (used with object)
to treat (a person) as a celebrity.
lionise
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a variation of
lionize.
Example Sentences
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"That impulse to lionise, while laudable, flattens Franklin's fascinating quirks and sizeable ambition, stripping her of what made her such a compelling, complicated artist."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2021
They can lionise or denigrate; they can use mass media to superimpose a subjective view on to a legacy.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2014
The inhabitants of areas governed by forest law loathed it, and would have been likely to lionise anyone who flouted it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010
Altogether this was a woman whom even London could not lionise; somebody outwardly altogether too plain, simple, unpretending, to admit of hero-worship.
From Charlotte Bront? A Monograph by T. Wemyss Reid
People are now pleased not only to meet artists socially, but to lionise them as well.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
