mythic

CEFRB2

/ˈmɪθɪk/

adjective

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The story has a mythic quality that inspires readers.
Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.
Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.

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Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
1998, Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations, page 88
Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.
2005, Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies, page 294
The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
2008, Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow, page 156
The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.
2008, Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader, page 351
By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161

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1660s; from Latin mȳthicos or Ancient Greek μυθικός (muthikós); equivalent to myth + -ic.