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What does lionization mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of lionizing, the behavior that treats someone as a celebrity, either respectfully honoring or fawning adoration.
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Steinmetz was appalled by the lionization of Guinea's leader.
It's easy to lionize and forget what courage goes into that kind of lionization.
Paris made a great fuss over him, but he took his lionization very calmly.
Some movies, regardless of whether they are seen in January, June, or December, stand out as sure-fire candidates for end-of-the-year lionization.
Whatever McCarthy's shortcomings — and even in the period of his lionization a streak of contrariness was evident in his nature — he did not lose the White House for the Democrats.
The type of flattery that has reached dangerous proportions today is the absurd adulation and lionization of movie stars and other celebrities.

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