pedestalize

English

Etymology

pedestal +‎ -ize

Verb

pedestalize (third-person singular simple present pedestalizes, present participle pedestalizing, simple past and past participle pedestalized)

1. To place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree.
   • 1997, Larry Crabb, Connecting: Healing for Ourselves and Our Relationships: A Radical New Vision‎^[1], W Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.

   • 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:

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

   • 2014, Paul Veliyathil, T.H.R.I.V.E: Six Keys to a Fuller Life‎^[2], Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.