myth-makern.
/ˈmɪθˌmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈmɪθˌmeɪkər/ A person or other agent who creates myths; a mythologizer.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > relating or constructing myths > one who
mythologer1604
mythologist1608
mythologizer1641
mythographer1660
myth-maker1856
mythopoeist1873
mythopoet1876
mythograph1891
1856 L. Tayler Bible & Sci. 80 If it is naturalism at all, it is the bold naturalism of Scripture, such as a poetical myth-maker..would never have ventured upon.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 20 That the earliest myth-maker arose and flourished among more civilized nations.
1927 Speculum 2 396 To explain how mortal men could continue to be thus worshipped, it was thought..that mankind had been deceived by poets and myth-makers.
1954 J. R. Reaver (title) Emerson as mythmaker.
1972 Listener 10 Aug. 183/1 Why did Buonarroti, who had started life as a court page, become a professional revolutionary and myth-maker, to bore historians for the next 130 years?
1997 Guardian 5 Nov. (Society section) 6/2 If the tabloids and other mythmakers are to be believed, there is a ‘drug culture’ which has become pervasive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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