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单词 mythicize
释义

mythicize

/ˈmɪθɪsʌɪz /
(also mythicise)
verb [with object]
Make (someone or something) the subject of a myth or myths: the figure of Jesus had been mythicized by the religious imagination of the early Christians...
  • But by mythicising his illness he extracted more from the experience than he would had he recognised its true provenance.
  • The characters are themselves responsible for thus mythicizing the geographical journey; each of them embarks on an ‘imagined journey from periphery to centre’.
  • Virgil recognizes the anomaly of expunged Trojan origins and effectively mythicizes it in Book 12 of the Aeneid.

Derivatives

mythicism

/ˈmɪθɪsɪz(ə)m/ noun ...
  • Flemming has in a way tarnished the image of mythicism by promoting bad arguments, and ironically will drive people away from mythicism.
  • Our traditions must be well disposed, that is able to stand back wisely from even the appearance of excessive mythicism in their own tradition.
  • A continuing objective of scholars of judicial behavior is to expose the mythicism that is integral to the public perception of American judicial institutions.

mythicist

/ˈmɪθɪsɪst/ noun ...
  • It's better to be a mythicist than a minimalist, but wiser to be a millennialist than a mythicist.
  • Despite the claims of certain mythicists, there is of course no evidence of Mithra being crucified.
  • I just want to know how you fellow realists can actually argue with these mythicists and keep your cool?
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