Etymology

mythomoteur

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Today it means: The constitutive myth that gives an ethnic group its sense of purpose. Full definition →

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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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.