Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character, condition, or career of a hero.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The character or personality of a hero.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
character orpersonality of ahero .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even the sight of the uniform, symbolic of possible future heroship, was exciting, and young ladies in Jane Austen would look at no man not an officer.
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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Broughton, contemptuously dismisses a claimant for the heroship of one of her stories, as the kind of man who turns up his trousers at the foot.
My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke Maurice Brazil Prendergast 1898
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Achilles is substantially deposed from his heroship and replaced by
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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We have already stated that this entire Ithakeiad resembles the novel, giving pictures of the social life of the time, and elevating the humblest man into heroship.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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