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What does idealize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word idealize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
  2. (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
  3. (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.
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Some people have a feeling of nostalgia for what has been lost and idealize the past.
At the same time, however, they would come to idealize the comradeship of the trenches and to support civic virtues.
Like Sallust, Livy was inclined to idealize the severe virtues of republican Rome.
To motivate idealization, consider how the public justification fares if it declines to idealize, or endorses justificatory populism.
Castles themselves housed many men but few women, and poets, wishing to idealize physical passion, looked beyond the marriage state.
And finally, all cultures, I suspect, idealize and prettify some forms of sin.

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