heroicize

verb

heroicize

verb

Etymology From heroic + -ize.

1

To make or depict as heroic.

A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich.2007, Heinz Eduard Todt, Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth, Glen Harold Stassen, Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context, →ISBN, page 21:
Professors of post-coloniality have a curious need to heroicize (and self-heroicize) and these Australians are no exception.2007, Richard Serrano, Against the Postcolonial, →ISBN:

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Societies heroicize soldiers during war to encourage young men to enlist and their families to support the war effort.2018, Eugene Edward Beiriger, World War I: A Historical Exploration of Literature, →ISBN, page 16:

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