Sentence:  Among his earliest plays is the cumbersome "Jánosvík" (perf. 1910), where Mahen attempts a down-to-earth <WSD>titanization</WSD> (sic) of the Slovak national hero, Jánosvík; he tries to make him nearer what he was in history than, say, Ján Botto in his "Smrt. Jánosvíkova", without removing the aura which had accrued around him in the Slovak tradition. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of making or depicting as titanic.