idolise
verbEtymology From idol + -ise.
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UK, Nonstandard Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of idolize.
- Can I bear to write shame on that fair young brow—send him forth a wanderer from the home of which he has been the delight—sow dissension between a father and son, who now idolise each other?1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 125:
- Derived terms
- idoliser