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Raiding vs Mythic - What's the difference?

raiding | mythic |

As a verb raiding

is .

As a noun raiding

is the act of carrying out a raid.

As an adjective mythic is

larger-than-life.

raiding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of carrying out a raid.
  • * 1995 , Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation (page 172)
    • These raidings and counter-raidings continued over a brief pre-war season, the wives being paraded and used in the same way as captured 'outsider' women.

    mythic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Larger-than-life.
  • * 1998 , Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations , page 88:
    • Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
  • * 2007 , James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game , page 63:
    • Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
  • * 2008 , Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow , page 156:
    • The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
  • * 2010 , Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society , page 161:
    • By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
  • Mythical; existing in myth.
  • * 2005 , Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies , page 294:
    • Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic' hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for ' mythic heroes.
  • * 2008 , Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader , page 351:
    • The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.

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