Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
heroic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Heroic.
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- adjective
Heroic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes
Etymologies
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Examples
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The last object that ties man and man, is comeliness of person, and beauty alone, as men love women with a wanton eye: which κατ 'ἐξοχὴν is termed heroical, or love-melancholy.
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The part affected in men is the liver, and therefore called heroical, because commonly gallants.
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But if anything be already said in the defence of sweet poetry, all concurreth to the maintaining the heroical, which is not only a kind, but the best, and most accomplished kind of poetry.
English literary criticism Various
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But if anything be already said in the defense of sweet poetry, all concurreth to the maintaining the heroical, which is not only a kind, but the best and most accomplished kind of poetry.
The Defense of Poesy 1909
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The son of this heiress was the 'heroical' Lord Audley who so greatly distinguished himself at the
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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a kind of heroical scorn he bid Aeneas take her, or with a milder farewell, let her go.
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The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.
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How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome!
Chapter 6 2010
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How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome.
Chapter 5 2010
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The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.
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