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to love or admire too much
- a singing star so canonized by his fans that they refuse to believe anything bad about him
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to assign a high status or value to
- those movie buffs who have canonized Alfred Hitchcock as filmdom's preeminent director
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The first known use of canonize was in the 14th century
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