Idealize Definition

ī-dēə-līz
idealized, idealizes, idealizing
verb
idealized, idealizes, idealizing
To make ideal; think of or represent as ideal.
Webster's New World
To form an ideal or ideals.
Webster's New World
To regard or show as perfect or more nearly perfect than is true.
Webster's New World
To represent things in the manner of an idealist.
Webster's New World

(art) To portray using idealization.

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Origin of Idealize

  • From ideal +‎ -ize

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Idealize Sentence Examples

  • Guelph aemocracy and industry idealize the pope.

  • He was an idealist, but while other idealists idealize the nobler elements in human nature, so has he, for the most part - the later books, however, show improvement - idealized the elements that are bestial.

  • We see this in Pisces' desire to idealize their partners.

  • Ghibelline aristocracy and immobility idealize the emperor.

  • When the narratives describe the life of the young David at the court of the first king of the northern kingdom, when the scenes cover the district which he took with the sword, and when the brave Saul is represented in an unfavourable light, one must allow for the popular tendency to idealize great figures, and for the Judaean origin of the compilation.

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IIDIDE

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EZEIZE

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