"mythist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1871, “Steps of Belief”, in Catholic World, volume 12, page 295",
          "text": "He defends what he calls the \"historic Christ\" against the mythists and free-religionists, and professes to accept the principal events recorded in the Gospels as historical facts; but he sees in our Lord only a man conceived and born like other men, and in his character only the normal perfections of our human nature.",
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        "A maker of myths."
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          "word": "mythmaker"
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