lionism

noun5

1. •
   The practice of lionizing (“treating a person as a celebrity or someone important”); also, the state of being lionized.
2. •
   (historical) The 19th-century practice of bringing a lion (“an interesting person or object”) into one’s home as entertainment for visitors.
3. •
   (historical) The state of being the lion (see above) of 19th-century hosts.
4. •
   The ideals of Rastafarianism.

   • The remainder of [Dennis] Forsythe’s paper and the subsequent book that followed elaborated on implementing the characteristics of ‘lionism’ and achieving Rasta’s true ideal: […] — 1999
5. •
   The state of a person having a leonine facies, that is, facial features which resemble those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”).