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mythopoeic

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myth·o·poe·ic or myth·o·pe·ic  (mth-pk) also myth·o·po·et·ic (-p-tk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the making of myths.
2. Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking.

[From Greek mthopoios, composer of fiction, from mthopoiein, to relate a story : mthos, story + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots.]

mytho·poeia (-p), mytho·po·esis (-p-ss) n.


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Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
 
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