black legends

A form of black legend — Historiographical phenomenon in which a sustained trend in historical writing of biased reporting and introduction of fabricated, exaggerated and/or decontextualized facts is directed against particular persons, nations or institutions with the intention of creating a distorted and uniquely inhuman image of them.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of black legend
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black legends,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20legends.

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