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black legends

black legends is the plural of black legend.

Meaning of black legend

Noun

black legend (plural black legends)

  1. Historiographical phenomenon in which a sustained trend in historical writing of biased reporting and introduction of fabricated, exaggerated and/or decontextualized facts is directed against particular persons, nations or institutions with the intention of creating a distorted and uniquely inhuman image of them.

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Questions about black legends

What is black legends the plural of?
Black legends is the plural of black legend.

Words near black legends in the dictionary

  1. Black Law
  2. Black Laws
  3. black lead
  4. black leads
  5. black legend
  6. black legends
  7. Black Legion
  8. black lemur
  9. black lemurs
  10. black letter
  11. black letter day

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