mythologize
verb (used without object)
to classify, explain, or write about myths.
mythologise
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a variation of
mythologize.
Example Sentences
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"We mustn't mythologise, we must tell the story as it was," he told me.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2023
Real dictators have to pay artists to mythologise them.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2013
This is an example of the tendency to mythologise chief executives.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2011
ITV1; 8pm, BBC1; 8pm, ITV1 TV nostalgists tend to mythologise Saturday night entertainment of yesteryear.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2010
A remarkable synthesis was thus gradually accomplished, though it will always be a question whether the stronger tendency was to philosophise mythology or to mythologise philosophy.
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Kirsopp Lake
