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fictionize

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

verb (used with object)

fictionized, fictionizing
  1. fictionalize.


Other Word Forms


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 Honoré Morrow

Lania, an exile from the Reich who sticks close to the news, includes in his novel a fictionized account of how Hugo Stinnes cornered industrial Germany during the inflation.

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

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

Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sketches and rambling stories faithful to cattle backgrounds; flavor and humanity through fictionized anecdote.

From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie

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 J. Atwood Slater

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