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单词 mythicist
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mythicistn.

Brit. /ˈmɪθᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɪθəsəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mythic adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < mythic adj. + -ist suffix. Compare earlier mythist n., mythicism n.
A student, interpreter, or creator of myths; (Theology) an exponent of mythicism (now rare).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > interpretation of supernatural events as myths > one who
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1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. ii. 74 No mythicist surely could have made what has been called the damaging admission that faith was an essential to their operation [sc. of miracles].
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist v. §3. 332 Here we encounter the stiffest antagonism of the rationalist, the materialist, and the mythicist.
1879 Princeton Rev. July–Dec. 162 The mythicist says that the thoughts of the Jewish mind conjured up the divine interference and imagined the facts of the history.
1993 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Feb. 8 McGuane's fellow celebrants of the West, like Richard Ford or Cormac McCarthy, are the male mythicists of the landscape in the American tradition.
1995 Tikkun (Nexis) July 59 By malevolently cracking nutshells, the old mythicist was sending me symbolic symbols as to whose nuts he'd really like to crack.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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