Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The production of or the tendency to originate myths.

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  • In American mythogenesis the founding fathers were not those eighteenth-century gentlemen who composed a nation at Philadelphia.

    Kick Him, Honey Ben 2010

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