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mythopoeic

/mith-uh-pee-ik/US // ˌmɪθ əˈpi ɪk //UK // (ˌmɪθəʊˈpiːɪk) //

神话式的,神话般地,神话般的,神话般

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.

Examples

  • Even down to 1750, the ballads on Rob Roy's sons are more or less mythopoeic.

  • At work in Ogilvies thought is a conception of the mythopoeic function of the earliest poets whose names have come down to us.

  • What, however, I do not know, is the extent to which the mythopoeic faculty was developed in him.

  • Symonds treats it as an allegory in harmony with the mythopoeic genius of Greek poetry.

  • The believer reasoned from his own prejudiced and mythopoeic conception of people whom he disliked.