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pedestalizer

pedestalizer is the agent noun of pedestalize.

Meaning of pedestalize

Verb

pedestalize (third-person singular simple present pedestalizes, present participle pedestalizing, simple past and past participle pedestalized)

  1. To place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree.
    • She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.1997, Larry Crabb, Connecting: Healing for Ourselves and Our Relationships: A Radical New Vision, W Publishing Group, →ISBN

Forms of pedestalizer

pluralpedestalizers

Origin of pedestalizer

From pedestalize + -er.

Questions about pedestalizer

What is pedestalizer the agent noun of?
Pedestalizer is the agent noun of pedestalize.

Words near pedestalizer in the dictionary

  1. pedestaling
  2. pedestalization
  3. pedestalizations
  4. pedestalize
  5. pedestalized
  6. pedestalizer
  7. pedestalizers
  8. pedestalizes
  9. pedestalizing
  10. pedestalled
  11. pedestalling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedestalizer (page history and authors); pedestalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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