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mythopoeticize

mythopoeticize verb: to make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.

Verb

mythopoeticize (third-person singular simple present mythopoeticizes, present participle mythopoeticizing, simple past and past participle mythopoeticized)

  1. (transitive) To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.
    • I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in New York Times

Forms of mythopoeticize

third-person singular presentmythopoeticizes
present participlemythopoeticizing
past participlemythopoeticized
pastmythopoeticized

Origin of mythopoeticize

From mythopoetic + -ize.

Questions about mythopoeticize

What does mythopoeticize mean?
Mythopoeticize means to make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.
What part of speech is mythopoeticize?
Mythopoeticize is a verb.
What is the past tense of mythopoeticize?
The past tense of mythopoeticize is mythopoeticized.

Words near mythopoeticize in the dictionary

  1. mythopoesis
  2. mythopoet
  3. mythopoetic
  4. mythopoetical
  5. mythopoetically
  6. mythopoeticize
  7. mythopoeticized
  8. mythopoeticizes
  9. mythopoeticizing
  10. mythopoetics
  11. mythopoetize

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