Both Uses of
idealize
in
Pygmalion
- The word passion means nothing else to them; and that Higgins could have a passion for phonetics and idealize his mother instead of Eliza, would seem to them absurd and unnatural.†
Act 5 *
- Sensible despots have never confined that precaution to women: they have taken their whips with them when they have dealt with men, and been slavishly idealized by the men over whom they have flourished the whip much more than by women.†
Act 5
Definition:
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(idealize) to think of or portray as ideal (perfect)