hero worship
noun
a profound reverence for great people or their memory.
hero-worshiper
-
a word derived from
hero-worship.
Example Sentences
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Although, with typical exuberance, he calls his subject "a genius among the great men of his era," he is no hero-worshiper where Saint-Ex's flying is concerned.
From Time Magazine Archive
The portraits of Roosevelt are those of a hero-worshiper, and some of them are as devastating as anything his enemies ever composed.
From Time Magazine Archive
That reckons without Nobody, who turns out to be not just a hero-worshiper but perhaps the first gunfighter groupie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Morrison had been a hero-worshiper since 1918, when she and other students invited Frost to lecture at Bryn Mawr.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every child and every grown-up whose heart is young is a hero-worshiper.
From Pearl and Periwinkle by Anna Graetz
