Definition of "lionising" [lionising]

• Present participle of lionise. (verb)

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• "During the month I spent in London in the spring, I kept very quiet, having the fear of "lionising" before my eyes."
• "Port Harcourt - The Presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo has been fingered for "lionising" militancy in the Niger Delta which blossomed to the present uncontrollable state where it wears the toga of invincibility."
• "Leaving aside the inevitable demonising of the military, large corporations and industry, the lionising of noble savages in ecstatic pantheistic harmony with their computer game vegetation – all of which are irritating enough in their own right – the dialogue was so mind-numbingly trite, it make Titanic look like Proust."