The act of lionizing, the behavior that treats someone as a celebrity, either respectfully honoring or fawning adoration.(noun)
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Use "lionization" in a sentence
"So I had aid and abetment in performing the little lionization which is obligatory on a visitor to New York; for the "Colonel's" comrade, my fellow-voyager of the Asia, came to the same hotel."
"With the Academy attempting to attract more and younger viewers to the Oscar telecast with more popular and populist fare, critics' over-the-top lionization of a good but not great black and white silent film that no one has heard of is probably the last thing they wanted."
"Pakistani commentators have expressed shock at the public lionization of Qadri and the demonization of Taseer, who did nothing worse than criticize the blasphemy law and commiserate with a Christian peasant woman who was sentenced to death under it."