had idealized

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of idealize.
  idealize

  verb (used with object)

  to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.

Example Sentences

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had idealized

It would amuse him to know how much she had idealized him, how he had become a person made not of flesh but of little crystals of perfection, the American man she would never have.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I thought I knew you when we were boy and girl together, and, girl-like, I suppose I had idealized you in some ways.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

I had idealized the freedom of America, and especially the reform of the position of women, to such an extent, that I would not listen to their arguments.

From A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia by Caroline Healey Dall

She had set love affairs, and all the notions connected therewith, behind her; but she had idealized Alec Naylor a little; and she thought Cynthia, in homely phrase, "hardly good enough."

From The Secret of the Tower by Anthony Hope

He had idealized her in his transports, he had dreamed in her eyes—he knew not what!

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

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