The process or act of making someone or something heroic; the elevation to heroic status.
From heroize plus -ation (from Latin -atio), the suffix creating nouns from verbs describing the process or result of an action.
Heroization is exactly what happens when dead soldiers become monuments, failed artists become legends, or villains get rebranded as misunderstood heroes by their admirers.
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