pedestalize

present singular third person pedestalizes · participle present pedestalizing · participle past pedestalized · past pedestalized

1. To place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree.

   She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.

   1997, Larry Crabb, Connecting: Healing for Ourselves and Our Relationships: A Radical New Vision, W Publishing Group, →ISBN

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   […] the impact of external sources that continue to simultaneously pedestalize and devalue the work of motherhood.

   2002, Rachel Epstein, “Butches with Babies: Reconfiguring Gender and Motherhood”, in Michelle Gibson, Deborah Meem, editors, Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go, Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 54

   I was made aware of my own tendency to pedestalize while talking with Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, during a Unity Forum in Fort Lauderdale.

   2014, Paul Veliyathil, T.H.R.I.V.E: Six Keys to a Fuller Life, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN