hero worship
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Wor·ship n.
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.]
A man of worship and honour. --Chaucer.
Elfin, born of noble state,
And muckle worship in his native land. --Spenser.
2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]
Of which great worth and worship may be won. --Spenser.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. --Luke xiv. 10.
3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
My father desires your worships' company. --Shak.
4. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. “God with idols in their worship joined.”
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship. --Tillotson.
5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair,
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
That can my spirits to your worship. --Shak.
6. An object of worship.
In attitude and aspect formed to be
At once the artist's worship and despair. --Longfellow.
Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.
He·ro n.; pl. Heroes
1. Myth. An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody. --Emerson.
3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
The shining quality of an epic hero. --Dryden.
Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.
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Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind. --Carlyle.
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hero worship
n : admiration for great men (or their memory)