Definition of "idealises" [idealises]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of idealise. (verb)

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• "It idealises the theocratic monoculture we used to be."
• "Sheen's Hamlet idealises the dead father by becoming the Ghost himself."
• "The aesthetic which idealises the individual's will-to-power, which appeals to emotion rather than reason, which derides the intellectual "constraints" of reason, which glories in the sublime nature of the wild, which looks to the "heroic" heritage of the past for chivalric models of virtue -- this is the aesthetic which gives us fascism."