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/hɪrˈoʊɪk/ Listen

adjective

Heroic adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

2.

Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

3.

(Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; said of the representation of a human figure.

Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.

Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry.

Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case.

Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.

Synonyms: Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.

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Etymology of 'Heroic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heroic" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been in the judgment-hall his courage had oozed out of him at the prick of a maid-servant's sharp tongue, but now he fronts all the ecclesiastical authorities without a tremor. Whence came the transformation of the cowardly denier into the heroic confessor, who turns the tables on his judges and accuses them? The narrative answers. He was 'filled with the Holy Ghost.' That abiding possession of the Spirit, begun on Pentecost, did not prevent special inspiration for special needs, and the Greek indicates that ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren

... heard of Icarus' fall, but she had experienced her own from the giddy heights of heavenly happiness, down to the depths of dull, aching despair. The fall had been very gradual—there had been nothing grand or heroic or soul-stirring about it: Andor had gone away, having told her that he loved her, and adjured her to wait for him. She had waited for three years, patiently, quietly, obstinately, despite the many and varied sieges laid to her heart ...

— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... with your love tales, if you please; but keep your serious views secret. Trust those only to some tried friend, more experienced than yourself, and who, being in a different walk of life from you, is not likely to become your rival; for I would not advise you to depend so much upon the heroic virtue of mankind, as to hope or believe that your competitor will ever be your friend, as to ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... feigned, that Phorbas, Hyacinthus, and Admetus were beloved by Apollo; or that Hippolytus the Sicyonian was so much in his favor, that, as often as he sailed from Sicyon to Cirrha, the Pythian prophetess uttered this heroic verse, expressive of ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... for the party and for Laurier's subsequent fame—though it may not have seemed so at the time—emergence of the reciprocity question gave it an opportunity to fall on an issue which seemed to link up the end of the regime with its heroic beginnings and to reinvest the party with some of its ...

— Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics • J. W. Dafoe

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