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fictionize

American  
[fik-shuh-nahyz] / ˈfɪk ʃəˌnaɪz /
especially British, fictionise

verb (used with object)

fictionized, fictionizing
  1. fictionalize.


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Etymology

Origin of fictionize

First recorded in 1825–35; fiction + -ize

Example Sentences

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British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's impossible to fictionize Germany," laughed Mrs. Rotherick.

From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré

Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses'.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas Mann is less known in this country for Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue.

From Time Magazine Archive

He fictionized stories he had heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gaps between have been bridged by fictionized accounts of glorious undertakings and discoveries.

From Cubs of the Wolf by Jones, Raymond F.

If fictionizing in prose, he writes with brief orange-hued flashes of liquid ether; each of short, all but, brief span.

From Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes by Slater, J. Atwood

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