It is a feast to the proud, to hear that men abroad do magnify him, or see that those about him do reverence, and love, and honour, and idolize him.
They first idolize themselves and their sensual delights; and then they love such wisdom, goodness, and greatness, as is suitable to their selfish, sensual lust and interest.
He may idolize his wealth, and idolize men in power and worldly greatness; but it is but as they can help or hurt his flesh: this hath his heart.
She is a splendid girl, and they idolize each other.
They idolize this Wilford, and I dare say he is worthy of their idolatry.
But I can love and cherish and idolize you, and yet in my spare moments praise my friend.
On the contrary, duchess, you do not know it, but I idolize you.
Madame de Choiseul, passionately fond of her husband, was the martyr of this union, but at last submitted with a good grace; has gained a little credit with him, and is still believed to idolize him.
They hate the Parliaments and the philosophers, and are rejoiced that they may still idolize royalty.
I think Christians may be ready to idolize their graces, and make them mediators, when they are known, but is this a good remedy of that evil, to abandon all sight and knowledge of the things freely given us of God?
We are given to idolize the creatures, and dig broken cisterns, and forsake the fountain of living waters, to seek the creature as if it were God, and the strength of affections uses to be spent on it.
Hitherto mankind has often been tempted by preconceived notions to idolize vain things.
We must not idolize the faculty of thought nor forget its divine nature.
Christ did not intend us to idolize the bread and wine.
Christ did not intend us to idolize the Sacrament; Christ commanded us to eat and drink the bread and wine, not to worship it.
Nothing could make me so happy as an event which unites a sister I idolize to the friend on earth most dear to me, did I not tremble for your future happiness, from my perfect knowledge of both.
I adore, I idolize her character; but I cannot sincerely wish to cultivate her friendship.
It is not love; for I love, I idolize another: but it is softer and more pleasing, as well as more animated, than friendship.
To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.
And as they idolize me, a man of money, for my wealth, so I idolize my wealth for what it brings me.
You do not know, I am a bad wife--mean and cowardly, and not worthy to have you idolize me so.
I've always been ashamed to unbosom myself, to confess how I idolize him, how madly I love him.
But here all have their share of the profits, and it's pleasant to see how they all cling to him from the foreman down to the youngest errand boy, idolize Frau Reginchen, and spoil the black-haired boys and little girl.
He doesn't know how I idolize him," she said to herself.
He believes in it still, and, if it must go, he is ready to idolize its memory.
He used toidolize the Constitution of the United States as the one great dominant Democracy of the world.
I am loved, he is a father, I idolize our children.
Don't speak to me of love; you may idolize me, as you say you do, for a certain time, but you will never love me as you love Louise.
I'm not jealous, but I can see how you idolize Lilias, Gerry.
You will marry a young and handsome man with a title, and he will idolize you.
If you will introduce her to me, you will be her darling, her Benjamin; she will idolize you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idolize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
