lionize
verb (used with object)
to treat (a person) as a celebrity.
lionizer
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a word derived from
lionize.
Example Sentences
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The latter impression was fostered, no doubt, by the master’s natural detestation of the methods by which the average lionizer seeks to gain his object, and both alike are disproved in the Recollections of J.V.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
