To create or transform something into a fable; to treat or describe something as if it were a fable.
From fabula + -ize suffix. Rare academic term, primarily used in literary criticism and history.
When scholars 'fabulize' a historical figure like George Washington, they mean the real person gets transformed into legend—myth-making as a scholarly process.
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