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mythologizing

mythologizing is the present participle and gerund of mythologize.

Meaning of mythologize

Verb

mythologize (third-person singular simple present mythologizes, present participle mythologizing, simple past and past participle mythologized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
    • Most of Æsopes fables have divers senses, and severall interpretations: Those which Mythologize them, chuse some kinde of colour well-suting with the fable; but for the most part, it is no more than the first and superficiall glosse[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology.
  3. (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.

Questions about mythologizing

What is mythologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Mythologizing is the present participle and gerund of mythologize.

Words near mythologizing in the dictionary

  1. mythologize
  2. mythologized
  3. mythologizer
  4. mythologizers
  5. mythologizes
  6. mythologizing
  7. mythologue
  8. mythologues
  9. mythology
  10. mythomane
  11. mythomanes

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