Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To convert into myth; mythicize.
- intransitive verb To construct or relate a myth.
- intransitive verb To interpret or write about myths or mythology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To construct or relate mythical history.
- To explain myths.
- To make into a myth.
- To render mythical.
- To interpret in relation to mythology.
- Also spelled
mythologise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
- intransitive verb To construct and propagate myths.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb construct a myth
- verb make into a myth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Moses (who broke the law of his great namesake through a blind admiration of his example in spoiling the Egyptians) was only a new instance of that tendency to mythologize which is as strong as ever among the uneducated.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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We mythologize our soldiers, turning them into ideals of ourselves, but in the process remove them from ourselves and even themselves, setting them up as beings who can accomplish the impossible.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite : Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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Perhaps by now, after so many years have passed, I can only mythologize Kim, as we do once time has put some distance between the past and the present.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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That's a debatable contention considering the countless books that mythologize the era as an artistic high point for the city—Patti Smith's award-winning "Just Kids," for example, or James Wolcott's superb new memoir, "Lucking Out."
New York Rock City Eric Been 2011
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So, it was great fun for me to mythologize some of the landmarks of my teen years, the Aztec
A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy 2010
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We mythologize our soldiers, turning them into ideals of ourselves, but in the process remove them from ourselves and even themselves, setting them up as beings who can accomplish the impossible.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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One of the first things Miss Winter tells Margaret is that all children mythologize their births.
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Thomas Kelly It's easy to idealize the Sadhus or mythologize them.
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We mythologize our soldiers, turning them into ideals of ourselves, but in the process remove them from ourselves and even themselves, setting them up as beings who can accomplish the impossible.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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Perhaps by now, after so many years have passed, I can only mythologize Kim, as we do once time has put some distance between the past and the present.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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