to demythologize

Examples

• All

• As with the other markers created as part of this award-winning project, the text for the March to the Sea markers was based on modern scholarship, which demythologized the event and thus generated considerable interest even beyond the boundaries of the state.

  Academic text (2015)

• Scholars aim to demythologize religious texts to highlight their historical significance.

• Usually Plato is demythologizing the ancient writers like Homer, right?

• Demythologizing existential security: security and "lived religion" in a global age.

  Academic text (2007)

• Through the use of contemporary discourse, I seek to demythologize Castle in the Sky's position within the history of Studio Ghibli and to consider what this suggests about the early life of the studio.

  Academic text (2018)

• In this respect, Thales' move—at least in the accounts we have of his teaching—begins to demythologize the world.

  Academic text (2017)

• As far back as the seventeenth century, this current of Christian thinking has worked to demythologize the religion: to separate the kernel of moral inspiration from the shell of legend that has, presumably, accreted around it.

  Academic text (2006)

• Other fragments of Xenophanes support the view that he demythologizes Homer, rendering divinely infused beings as merely natural phenomena.

  Academic text (2017)

• For example, in an article entitled "Demythologizing Natural Human Rights" in the May/June 1989 issue, Delos B. McKown advanced the view that human rights possess no independent existence; they are mere creatures of law that "are neither immutable nor permanent."

  Academic text (2000)

• There must also be reform in pedagogy and pedagogical training—not just continued and demythologized attention to how children create and learn, but vigorous inquiry into how their teachers are prepared.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

D

to demystify

vsto demythologize

7 5.1

To make something easier to understand by removing mystery or confusion

focuses on stripping myth or supernatural claims to expose historical facts

Antonyms

M

to mythologize

3 7.7

To say something was a legend or better than it really was by ignoring faults

How Thorough

to debunk

57 5.7

to demythologize

• Specialized

1 9.9

to reinterpret

10 5.8

to explain

∞ 1.0

to note

951 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology