单词 | mythopoeist |
释义 | mythopoeistn. A creator of myths; an exponent of mythopoeia. ΘΚΠ 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 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 2 Decayed, disintegrated, dilapidated phrases, the meaning of which had been lost to the first mythopoeists. 1959 Mod. Lang. Notes 74 599 Shelley and other Romantic mythopoeists. 1975 Times 14 Jan. 14/4 Left-wing mythopoeists. 1992 Transition No. 57. 18/2 The result is what Guyanese novelist and mythopoeist Wilson Harris calls ‘solipsistic masks of community run amok’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1873 |
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