heroicize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

Transitive verb

"A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich."
"Professors of post-coloniality have a curious need to heroicize (and self-heroicize) and these Australians are no exception."
"Societies heroicize soldiers during war to encourage young men to enlist and their families to support the war effort."

From heroic + -ize.

heroicizes (present, singular) heroicizing (participle, present) heroicized (participle, past) heroicized (past)

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