Definition of "hero-worship" []

• To revere as an ideal. (verb-transitive)
• To adulate. (verb-transitive)

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• "Lacking any argument of any substance, the troll is reduced to pretending that exaggerrated caricatures of hero-worship are real, for the purpose of ridiculing the straw characters who hold those phony beliefs."
• "Now this is no doubt a very comforting idea for those of us who harbor fantasies of romantic individualism and hero-worship, but I don't think it's the way architecture actually gets made in the real world."
• "Stroud (the Bartimaeus Trilogy) explores the consequences behind legend-worthy acts of glory and the power and peril of blind faith and hero-worship."