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n. - The adoration of females.

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  • Where are the absurdities of youthful woman-worship held up to such derision as in Pendennis 'love for Miss Costigan!
  • If, then, this woman-worship, this complexity of love, this self-debating, first comes into literature with Chretien de
  • What Kaname doesn't seem to "get" about this whole woman-worship thing is that the worshiper's actions should match his sentiments.
  • There, in the twelfth century, under a delightful climate and in a region of enchanting beauty, had arisen a luxurious civilization whose poets, the troubadours, many of them...
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