hero worship en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Extravagant admiration for great people, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.
Hero-worship endures forever while man endures.
1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 13: