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Today's Word "lionize"

To treat as an object of great importance on

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lionize \LY-uh-nyz\ (transitive verb) - To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance.

"I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me. I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, a least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality." -- Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

 

Lionize, comes from lion, in the sense of "a person of great interest or importance."


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