Idealize
[aɪ'diə'laɪz]
Definition
(verb.) form ideals; 'Man has always idealized'.
(verb.) consider or render as ideal; 'She idealized her husband after his death'.
Typist: Robinson--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
(v. t.) To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.
(v. i.) To form ideals.
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Examples
- Don't idealize him, either. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is not fair to say I idealize the Athenian mob; see, for example, my _Euripides and his Age_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Still, works of art have a permanent element; they idealize and detain the passing thought, and are the intermediates between sense and ideas. Plato. The Republic.
- In his _Prince_ he idealized this dazzling person. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Adam Smith expressed the process, named it, idealized it and made it self-conscious. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An idealized past becomes the refuge and solace of the spirit; present-day concerns are found sordid, and unworthy of attention. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was in Lily a vein of sentiment, perhaps transmitted from this source, which gave an idealizing touch to her most prosaic purposes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Realization that life is growth protects us from that so-called idealizing of childhood which in effect is nothing but lazy indulgence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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