All 3 Uses of
enshrine
in
The Fountainhead
- …up, while he struggles and gets nothing but a boot in his face, to see the mediocrity snatch from him, one after another, the chances he'd give his life for, to see the mediocrity worshipped, to miss the place he wants and to see the mediocrity enshrined upon it, to lose, to be sacrificed, to be ignored, to be beaten, beaten, beaten—not by a greater genius, not by a god, but by a Peter Keating—well, my little amateur, do you think the Spanish Inquisition ever thought of a torture to…†
Chpt 2.7
- Enshrine mediocrity—and the shrines are razed.†
Chpt 4.14 *
- You'll sit enthroned and enshrined, you, the little people, the absolute ruler to make all past rulers squirm with envy, the absolute, the unlimited, God and Prophet and King combined.†
Chpt 4.14
Definition:
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(enshrine) protect or hold sacred
or:
place in a shrine (or similar special and protective place)