mythologize

[ mi-thol-uh-jahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

, my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

, my·thol·o·gized, my·thol·o·giz·ing.

mythologize

/ mɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz /

1595–1605; mytholog(y) + -ize; compare French mythologiser

He began to mythologize about it on account of the grand elements of welfare, risk, and skill which were in it.

Perhaps; but, as in the days of Plato, we must needs mythologize when we come to deal with the other life.

No progress of science can wholly eradicate this tendency to mythologize.

They always reveal the invincible tendency of the masses to mythologize.

If, since we are discussing a metaphysical issue,431 we must mythologize, we might call it the "will to self-expression."

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