myth|mak|ing

myth|mak|ing
myth|mak|ing «MIHTH MAY kihng», noun.
the making or construction of myths: »

Frequently a respected patriarch or matriarch…encouraged imaginative genealogy and mythmaking, so that ancestors…became legendary heroes or beauties (New Yorker).


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