heroify

English

Verb

heroify (third-person singular simple present heroifies, present participle heroifying, simple past and past participle heroified)

To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws.
In writing about important historical figures, one must be careful not to heroify them.
- 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the Northwest Coast:
  What were the far-off natives of the Rocky Mountains doing that this restless, reckless, blood-thirsty, and cruel Frenchman should be permitted to kill them? [...] The vilest agents were permitted to employ the vilest means; and this French butcher finds among our first writers a man to heroify him and to set up his dastardly deeds as models for the young.

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单词	heroify
释义	heroify English Verb heroify (third-person singular simple present heroifies, present participle heroifying, simple past and past participle heroified) To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws. In writing about important historical figures, one must be careful not to heroify* them.* 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the Northwest Coast: What were the far-off natives of the Rocky Mountains doing that this restless, reckless, blood-thirsty, and cruel Frenchman should be permitted to kill them? [...] The vilest agents were permitted to employ the vilest means; and this French butcher finds among our first writers a man to heroify him and to set up his dastardly deeds as models for the young. Related terms heroification
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