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Lionize   Listen
verb
Lionize  v. t.  (past & past part. lionized, pres. part. lionizing)  
1.
To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.
2.
To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.





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"Lionize" Quotes from Famous Books



... epigrams in the world. His suggestions as to the best mode of elevating and enriching the country were considered by one set as the profoundest philosophy, and by another as the keenest satire. They were determined to lionize him. It was a new sensation to the Senator. He desired to prolong it. He recalled the ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille
... had not been a "Child of the Public" a day, before, in its great, clumsy, liberal way, it had provided for me. I owed my healthy, happy home of the next fourteen years in the wilderness to those marvellous habits, which I should else call absurd, with which we lionize strangers. Because our hospitals and poorhouses are the largest buildings we have, we entertain the Prince of Wales and Jenny Lind alike, by showing them crazy people and paupers. Easy enough to laugh at is the display; ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale


Words linked to "Lionize" :   lion, respect, honour, celebrate, honor, abide by, lionise


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