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Definition of Mythicizing
1. mythicize [v] - See also: mythicize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythicizing
Literary usage of Mythicizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of the Christian Religion: Being a Study of the Doctrine by William Mackintosh (1894)
"... departure from the earth by ascending in the presence of his disciples into
the clouds. But the mythicizing process which thus supplied details to the ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1885)
"... discover the real behind the legendary, the actual persons and occurrences
that had at once evoked the mythicizing imagination and been concealed by it. ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1866)
"Had so simple a principle been adhered to, we should not have had an eminent
public teacher mythicizing the historic account of creation as a poem, ..."
4. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1895)
"... interpreted, had been only an obscure rabbi of Nazareth in process of formation
into a transcendental object of faith by the mythicizing imagination. ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"This we think absurdly groundless, and highly improbable, from the absence of
any philosophizing tone in it, or any reference to the mythicizing tendencies ..."
6. The Jewish and the Christian Messiah: A Study in the Earliest History of by Vincent Henry Stanton (1886)
"... logically prior to it; and the rise of this faith must also to a great extent
have in fact preceded such a mythicizing process, if it really took place. ..."
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