"pedestalize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pedestal + -ize",
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      "form": "pedestalizes",
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      "form": "pedestalizing",
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      "form": "pedestalized",
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Larry Crabb, Connecting: Healing for Ourselves and Our Relationships: A Radical New Vision, W Publishing Group",
          "text": "She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.",
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        },
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          "ref": "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, page 54",
          "text": "[…] the impact of external sources that continue to simultaneously pedestalize and devalue the work of motherhood.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Veliyathil, T.H.R.I.V.E: Six Keys to a Fuller Life, Trafford Publishing",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree."
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          "on a pedestal",
          "on a pedestal"
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  "word": "pedestalize"
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  "etymology_text": "pedestal + -ize",
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      "form": "pedestalizing",
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      "form": "pedestalized",
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        },
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          "ref": "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, page 54",
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