mythopoeticize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mythopoetic + -ize.
Verb
[edit]mythopoeticize (third-person singular simple present mythopoeticizes, present participle mythopoeticizing, simple past and past participle mythopoeticized)
- (transitive) To make mythopoetic; to express in mythic poetry.
- 2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.