Meaning of heroify | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

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