mythologize
verb
my·thol·o·gize
mi-ˈthä-lə-ˌjīz 
mythologized; mythologizing
1
obsolete
: to explain the mythological significance of
2
: to build a myth around : mythicize
mythologizer
noun
Examples of mythologize in a Sentence
a politician who has been mythologized by his supporters
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They were made by each other by reverently mythologizing their history while also irreverently demolishing it to make way for whatever was new and next, like a postwar building that’s periodically renovated to keep up with trends.
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David Lachapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
By the time the work finally reached readers, the writer was a countercultural icon, and his past had been mythologized enough to give the story context.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Mao Zedong, the subject of several new biographies, has similarly shed the legendary veneer applied to him by Edgar Snow, whose 1937 Red Star Over China was the first work in any language to mythologize the Great Helmsman.
—John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
In the recent Saturday Night movie, which mythologizes the series’ turbulent birth, Gabrielle LaBelle (playing a young Michaels) gives a speech about how SNL should feel like a wild night out in the city, all jazz and revelry.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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David Lachapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
By the time the work finally reached readers, the writer was a countercultural icon, and his past had been mythologized enough to give the story context.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Mao Zedong, the subject of several new biographies, has similarly shed the legendary veneer applied to him by Edgar Snow, whose 1937 Red Star Over China was the first work in any language to mythologize the Great Helmsman.
—John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
In the recent Saturday Night movie, which mythologizes the series’ turbulent birth, Gabrielle LaBelle (playing a young Michaels) gives a speech about how SNL should feel like a wild night out in the city, all jazz and revelry.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Mythologize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythologize. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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