Definition of "lionise" [lionise]

• Alternative spelling of lionize. (verb)

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• "They move to the right because they find that when they do so the newspaper proprietors and government officials and foundations send them invitations and lionise them."
• "For the past four years, one of our goals has been to lionise the sources who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure, and without whose efforts, journalists would be nothing."
• "Why, in the UK, does the very same paper - The Guardian - hound the Conservative communications director Andy Coulson, for allegedly permitting phone-tapping while he was an editor of a rival paper, yet lionise Assange for lifting private information in an equally shifty manner?"