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单词 mythoclastic
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mythoclasticadj.

Brit. /mɪθə(ʊ)ˈklastɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɪθəˈklæstɪk/
Forms: 1800s mythoklastic, 1900s– mythoclastic.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mytho- comb. form, -clastic comb. form.
Etymology: < mytho- comb. form + -clastic comb. form. Compare slightly later mythoclast n.
That destroys or discredits a myth or myths; devoted to the destruction of myths.
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1881 Spectator 15 Oct. 1309/2 In this mythoklastic age.
1971 MLN 86 611 Nietzsche is on one side of his argument as radically mythoclastic..as any of Scott's post-moderns.
1984 Daily Tel. 11 June 14/2 Max Hastings's mythoclastic history of the battle for Normandy.
1992 P. G. Allen Sacred Hoop (new ed.) 106 It was precisely because the classics were based upon fictive themes that they survived the mythoclastic rigors of early Christianity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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