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heroically, adv.|hɪˈrəʊɪkəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a heroic manner; after the way of heroes; with exalted bravery and fortitude.
a1586Sidney (J.), Not heroically in killing his tyrannical cousin. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 238 They represent it..as something heroically excellent, the top and height of the Christian profession. 1743H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) I. lxxxi. 285, I will bear this misfortune as heroically as I can. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. (1889) II. 445 The Jacobites..represented him..as a martyr who had heroically laid down his life for the banished King and the persecuted Church.
2. In the manner of heroic poetry.
1595Spenser Col. Clout 447 Whose Muse..Doth like himselfe Heroically sound. 1664Dryden Rival Ladies Ded., Some..if they were to write in blank verse, Sir, I ask your pardon, would think it sounded more heroically to write, Sir, I your pardon ask.
3. With ‘heroic’ medical or surgical treatment.
1889J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Wom. xiii. (ed. 4) 94 She was the protégée of all the Ladies Bountiful in the neighbourhood, so that the doctors were afraid to treat her heroically. |