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etymology collapse: the study of the sources and development of words; a history of a word

lionize collapse: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"

venerable collapse: impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"

glorification collapse: the act of glorifying (as in worship); "the glorification of God"

science fiction collapse: literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

John Doe collapse: an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings; a hypothetical average man

parable collapse: (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"

adoring collapse: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"; showing adoration

conventional collapse: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"; unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"; (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"; in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"; conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"; represented in simplified or symbolic form

scat collapse: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument; flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

citizenry collapse: the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people"

established collapse: introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"; shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the established facts in the case"; securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet"

uncritical collapse: not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer"; marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts"

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