[f. LION + -ISM.] The practice of lionizing; the condition of being treated as a ‘lion’ or celebrity.
1835. Athenæum, 23 May, 392/3. Mrs. Hemans … was remarkable for shrinking from the vulgar honours of lionism.
1851. Carlyle, Sterling, III. i. (1872), 167. Sterling was … vividly awake to what was passing in the world; glanced … into its Puseyisms, Liberalisms, literary Lionisms, or what else the mad hour might be producing.
