mythomoteur

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Etymology[edit]

French; first used in this context by Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals, and later taken up by John Armstrong in his book Nations before Nationalism.

Noun[edit]

mythomoteur (plural mythomoteurs)

  1. The constitutive myth that gives an ethnic group its sense of purpose.