hero-worship

English

Verb

hero-worship (third-person singular simple present hero-worships, present participle hero-worshipping, simple past and past participle hero-worshipped)

1. To treat as a hero
   • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎^[1]:

     William hero-worshipped Carling and met him several times with Diana. When Carling visited Kensington Palace for a romantic rendezvous, he gave both the boys a rugby shirt.

     adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books