hero-worshipper
- a word derived from hero worship.
Example Sentences
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The match between Williams and Stephens had been variously billed as a clash between patron and protégé, hero and hero-worshipper and even queen and pretender to the throne.
From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2013
The usual put-down is to call Callow a hero-worshipper.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2010
Hamilton is a hero-worshipper and an alarmist—and a fool.'
From The Dictator by McCarthy, Justin
But to our task—which is no light one; for in our survey of this book we have to keep in view both hero and hero-worshipper, Cromwell and Carlyle, both somewhat slippery personages, abnormal, enigmatical.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
A hero-worshipper with half-concealed doubts as to his hero is in an awkward position.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
