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Noun: heroization
  1. The act, or the result, of making someone into a hero.
    "Despite its great importance for Greek religious and cultural history, the heroization of historical persons in the Archaic and Classical periods has not received a full and systematic study."

Type of: glorification, idealisation [Brit], idealization

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