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Definition of Mythologizing
1. mythologize [v] - See also: mythologize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythologizing
Literary usage of Mythologizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs by William Graham Sumner (1906)
"That interest was no more sensual than interest in the rainfall, and the
mythologizing about it was no more depraved than mythologizing about creation or ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1902)
"common denominator and rescuing them from the mystic interpretations of curiosity
hunters and mythologizing visionaries. ' ' The fifth chapter on "The ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... all individual existences in one single, unbroken scheme; partly also in the
unrestrained liberty which it leaves to the mythologizing fancy. India. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"25) as literal, he falsifies the idea by a process of mythologizing. To treat
the paradoxes of Jesus literally as statement of a law, as one might the ..."
5. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"It is this convention, in part, that makes IL'rvs, the pine-nymph, a mistress of
Pan, the herdsman's god, in the later literary mythologizing (Luc. DD 22. ..."
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