mythism
(ˈmɪθɪz(ə)m)
[f. myth n. + -ism.]
= mythicism. So ˈmythist = mythicist; ˈmythize v. = mythicize v.
| 1840 Carlyle Heroes i. (1858) 204 He is careful not to insinuate that the old Greek Mythists had any notion of lecturing about the ‘Philosophy of Criticism!’ 1840 W. H. Mill Observ. (1861) 172 On the system of the mythists, these purely Jewish circumstances of the Nativity should have been told by the Hebrew Gospel. 1848 O. A. Brownson Wks. (1884) V. 256 The pure Evangelicism promised you has degenerated into pietism, mythism, rationalism. 1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 329 Some would parabolise, or rather indeed (to use the more proper term) mythise, the..statements in the Book of Job. |