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mythicism

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  1. The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.

Word origin

From myth + -icism. In occasional use since the 1840s.

Used in a sentence

  • 1911 "The Californias were an inaccessible and mysterious Occident, invested in the imagination of most mankind with almost Babylonian mythicism." (R. G. Badger, Don Sagasto's daughter)
  • 1971 "Individual works are all potential myths, but it is their collective adoption that actualises - if such should be the case - their 'mythicism'." (Levi-Strauss)

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