heroicize

English

Etymology

From heroic +‎ -ize.

Verb

heroicize (third-person singular simple present heroicizes, present participle heroicizing, simple past and past participle heroicized)

To make or depict as heroic.
- 2007, Heinz Eduard Todt, Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth, Glen Harold Stassen, Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context, →ISBN, page 21:
  A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich.
- 2007, Richard Serrano, Against the Postcolonial, →ISBN:
  Professors of post-coloniality have a curious need to heroicize (and self-heroicize) and these Australians are no exception.
- 2018, Eugene Edward Beiriger, World War I: A Historical Exploration of Literature, →ISBN, page 16:
  Societies heroicize soldiers during war to encourage young men to enlist and their families to support the war effort.