Both Uses of
idealize
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Separation, which was the means that chance offered to Gabriel Oak by Bathsheba's disappearance, though effectual with people of certain humours, is apt to idealize the removed object with others—notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.†
Chpt 4-6
- The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her—visual familiarity, oral strangeness.†
Chpt 19-21 *
Definition:
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(idealize) to think of or portray as ideal (perfect)