Heroify

Quick meaning: Heroify is a verb meaning To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws.

Meaning

To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws.

Example Sentences

In writing about important historical figures, one must be careful not to heroify them.

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.

Word Forms

• heroifies
• heroifying
• heroified

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