"heroify" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hero",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "hero + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hero + -ify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heroifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heroifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heroified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heroified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heroify (third-person singular simple present heroifies, present participle heroifying, simple past and past participle heroified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ify",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In writing about important historical figures, one must be careful not to heroify them.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the Northwest Coast:",
          "text": "What were the far-off natives of the Rocky Mountains doing that this restless, reckless, blood-thirsty, and cruel Frenchman should be permitted to kill them? [...] The vilest agents were permitted to employ the vilest means; and this French butcher finds among our first writers a man to heroify him and to set up his dastardly deeds as models for the young.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws."
      ],
      "id": "en-heroify-en-verb-1mVV~WR6",
      "links": [
        [
          "raise",
          "raise"
        ],
        [
          "hero",
          "hero"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "heroification"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heroify"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hero",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "hero + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hero + -ify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heroifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heroifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heroified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heroified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heroify (third-person singular simple present heroifies, present participle heroifying, simple past and past participle heroified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "heroification"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "In writing about important historical figures, one must be careful not to heroify them.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the Northwest Coast:",
          "text": "What were the far-off natives of the Rocky Mountains doing that this restless, reckless, blood-thirsty, and cruel Frenchman should be permitted to kill them? [...] The vilest agents were permitted to employ the vilest means; and this French butcher finds among our first writers a man to heroify him and to set up his dastardly deeds as models for the young.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws."
      ],
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          "raise",
          "raise"
        ],
        [
          "hero",
          "hero"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "heroify"
}