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Meanings of hero-worship in English

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Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol.

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        Usage of hero-worship in English
        1
        Curiosity and hero-worship once took the author of these lines to Grimstad.
        Henrik Ibsen
        2
        In his present condition he did not feel inclined to receive hero-worship.
        The Cruise of the Dazzler
        3
        Paris admires her deistical authors and makes them the objects of hero-worship.
        The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academ...
        4
        No amount of hero-worship seemed to have the least effect upon him.
        Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
        5
        A mishap now might nip this very delightful little bud of hero-worship.
        Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
        6
        Here, Matar's hero-worship of his father is a little hard to take.
        The Guardian
        7
        Respect is not hero-worship, and good historical writing is not a heroes-and-villains tale.
        The Irish Times
        8
        On the small lad's side it had its root in gratitude and hero-worship.
        The Story of Sugar
        9
        On the other hand, none has been the object of such intemperate hero-worship.
        Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled Nort...
        10
        The Etheling was speaking again, with all the earnestness of hero-worship.
        The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
        11
        Harry also saw the growth of the hero-worship accorded to his great commander.
        The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand
        12
        But the pleasure of hero-worship for their author would be more than reduplicated.
        Yet Again
        13
        It was evident that my silent hero-worship was sweet to him.
        Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
        14
        It is a bad religion this hero-worship-atleast as practised by Mr Carlyle.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
        15
        It was also the expression of a young man's sincere hero-worship.
        Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
        16
        Our little friend, Miss Rogers, is suffering from a large case of hero-worship.
        Midnight
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        Hero-worship through the time