heroinely
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]heroinely (comparative more heroinely, superlative most heroinely)
- (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.