heroicise

English

Verb

heroicise (third-person singular simple present heroicises, present participle heroicising, simple past and past participle heroicised)

1. Alternative form of heroicize
   • 2002, Jean H. Duffy, Alastair B. Duncan, Claude Simon: A Retrospective, →ISBN, page 107:

     In La Route des Flandres, Blum's scepticism counters George's persistent, if ultimately defeated tendency to heroicise and idealise the family past.

   • 2005, Robert D. Grant, Representations of British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement, →ISBN:

     The archly staged 'landing' scenes from this work in particular both sanitise and heroicise the encounter between Britons and 'Natives' in ways that later Britons could, in turn, see as both confirmation of a worthy purpose and a form of transaction, if not transfiguration, that might validate their presence in the distant colonial landscape.

   • 2008, Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova, The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals, page 173:

     Both forms have a specific resonance in Russia, albeit for quite different reasons: the war film was used in Soviet times first as a means to heroicise the state, and later to heroicise the soldier (he, in most cases, would give his life for the fatherland).