Verb (used without object) : to idolize as did ancient Greece and Rome. From Dictionary.com.
Seyntaubyne was an idolizer of personal attractions. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
I have finally read it, and no self-respecting idolizer of Joseph Roth can wear that badge with pride until they have apparently. From Wordnik.com. [65 entries from December 2006] Reference
As a general rule, I'm not a big follower or idolizer of celebrities. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
Who is the idiotic, idolizer of Jim Cramer who wrote this hair-brained article?. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
Yep Guzzi, you're a fanatic Arnel idolizer who keeps on writing stirrers knowing more and more fans will come to his defense which is exactly what's happening. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
You must come less often; even to not at all, if you are one of those idols with feet of clay which leave the print of their steps in a room; or fall and crush the silly idolizer. '. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
That was Hizzoner, idolizer of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
In the end, there are three Sontag books to read: On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and a third, invented volume, drawn from the other books, of her selected portraits (Artaud, Benjamin, Barthes, Canetti, Cioran, Godard, Leiris, Lévi-Strauss, Pavese, Riefenstahl, Sebald, Serge, Tsypkin), for, as an idolizer, she wrote her best essays on single figures, rather than larger tropes. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Susan] Reference
I lived in California once and I don't ever remember seeing any swallows, not even around Capistrano, and I went there once half-bombed on Burgermeisters, ah those little Burgies, wonderful moments in highway beer drinking, heading down the Ortega Highway to lovely Tijuana mia, for some fiesta tiempo--I was into bullfights in those days remember, I once was a Hemingway idolizer and the Tijuana Plaza del Toros was an old beauty from back in the revolutionary days of Mexico Viejo, which we learned to call it in Tejas because of New Mexico being just across a desert prairie from my hometown, closer to us than Mexico Viejo, which was 500 miles south of me then and existed mostly in my "one day I'll go to Mexico" dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Madness and Survival, the Continuing Drama] Reference
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