Hero-worship definition

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Intense or excessive admiration for someone regarded as a hero.
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Great or excessive reverence or admiration for heroes or other persons.
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Extravagant admiration for great people, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.
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Hero-worship Sentence Examples

  • The sentiment of hero-worship was at all times strong in the Romans, and no one was ever the object of more sincere as well as simulated hero-worship than Augustus.

  • The Sicyonians accorded him hero-worship as a "son of Asclepius."

  • The native religion was an admixture of idolatry and hero-worship, of some ethical but little moral force.

  • In each of the years 1837 to 1840 he gave a course of lectures, of which the last only (upon " Hero Worship ") was published; they materially helped his finances.

  • This belief was supported by the Delphic oracle, which was largely instrumental in promoting hero-worship and keeping alive its due observance.

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