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Definition of Mythmaking
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythmaking
Literary usage of Mythmaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biotechnology, Agriculture, And Food Security in Southern Africa by Steven Were Omamo, Klaus von Grebmer (2005)
"North A third divisive force in the debate on biotechnology in agriculture relates
to political mythmaking—that is, to differences in myths about the nature ..."
2. Asymmetric Marketing: Tossing the 'Chasm' in the Age of the Software Superpowers by Joseph E. Bentzel (2006)
"Through his simple storytelling and mythmaking of those days, my father imprinted on
... They need 'sticky' artifacts, regular rituals, market mythmaking, ..."
3. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"As discussed in chapter 5, the international community should support radio and
other independent media that combat divisive mythmaking by providing ..."
4. Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism by Alexander J. Motyl (1993)
"The adjectives "evil" and "innocent" are part of mythmaking; without them both
myths would offer no emotionally appealing explanations for equally traumatic ..."
5. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"... I chose for my address was "The Mythmakers of American History," and the paper
considered those who had contributed to the mythmaking ..."
6. What is the Bible?: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Nature of the Old and New by George Trumbull Ladd (1888)
"... in the Hebrew nation, to those tendencies to wild and even immoral mythmaking
in which the surrounding heathen peoples so largely indulged. ..."
7. Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions: Being a Comparison of by Thomas William Doane (1882)
"... and furnished the groundwork of the epic poems, w, of the eastern or the
western world. " The mythical or mythmaking language of mankind had n ..."
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