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lionise

vb. (label en British spelling) (alternative spelling of lionize English)

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lionise

v. assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna" [syn: lionize, celebrate]

Usage examples of "lionise".

For three days he dwelt in the good land with content, lionised by his relatives, taking part in the hunts, the feasts, the corroborees, and being urged never to return to the camp of floods and hunger.

HE had not grown used to being a world-famous person, and had been forced to break away from the lionising that was robbing him of all privacy and repose.