heroinely

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

heroine +‎ -ly

Adjective[edit]

heroinely (comparative more heroinely, superlative most heroinely)

  1. (rare) Of, befitting, characteristic of, or related to a heroine, a female hero.
    • 2012, Fiona Robertson, The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott‎[1]:
      Between 1818, when The Heart of Mid-Lothian reinvented the heroinely heart, and 1824, when Redgauntlet signalled Scott's joint reclamation of his complex literary heritage and of his simplest personal fantasy, the literary world changed.
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