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单词 mythopoeia
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mythopoeian.

Brit. /ˌmɪθə(ʊ)ˈpiːə/, U.S. /ˌmɪθəˈpiə/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: mytho- comb. form, -poeia comb. form.
Etymology: < mytho- comb. form + -poeia comb. form, after Hellenistic Greek μυθοποιία. Compare earlier mythopoesis n., mythopoeism n.
The creation of a myth or myths; = mythopoesis n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > relating or constructing myths
mythoplasm1731
mythologizing1778
mythicizing1840
myth-making1853
mythopoeia1860
mythification1865
mythopoesis1882
mythogenesis1887
mythopoetizing1893
mythopoeism1899
mythography1927
remythologization1957
mythopoetics1965
mythicization1969
1860 C. H. Cottrell tr. C. C. J. von Bunsen Egypt's Place IV. v. vi. i. 450 In the domain of mythopœia, or myth-building.
1927 Cambridge Hist. Jrnl. 2 102 Even Solon, with every possible advantage, does not escape the new learned mythopoeia or unscrupulous literary fiction of the third and second centuries.
1959 H. Bloom Shelley's Mythmaking i. 8 I do not claim that all of Shelley's major and mature poems are mythopoeic, especially in the precise and narrow sense of mythopoeia that I insist upon here.
1970 Listener 30 July 154/2 Science is not immune to mythopoeia.
1986 Library Mar. 104 ‘Darkness echoing’: reflections on the return of mythopoeia in some recent poems.
1997 New Yorker 22 Sept. 106/1 As she stood in Jacobs' hallway..she experienced one of those moments—much celebrated in fashion-industry mythopoeia—of mysterious but incontrovertible revelation.
2015 F. Burwick Romanticism 181 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is an example of mythopoeia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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