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Definition of Lionism
1. n. An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.
Definition of Lionism
1. Noun. (dated) An attracting of attention, as a lion (celebrity); the treating or regarding as a lion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lionism
1. a lion-like appearance occurring in leprosy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionism
Literary usage of Lionism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography by Harriet Martineau (1877)
"ACCORDING to my promise,* I reprint the bulk of an article on 'Literary
lionism,'written in 1837, which will show,better than anything which I can now ..."
2. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"So Hero-worship,—Odin, Burns?10 Well: These 10 sudden; all common lionism, which
ruins Men of Letters too were not without a kind of innumerable men, ..."
3. Memoir of Edward Forbes by George Wilson, Archibald Geikie (1861)
"Gordon, a very fine genius, at their head. They seem all, too, to pull smoothly
together, and there are capital materials for red-lionism. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"So sudden; all common lionism, which ruins innumerable men, was as nothing to this.
It is as if Napoleon had been made a King of, not gradually, ..."
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