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heroine, n. (a.)|ˈhɛrəʊɪn|
Also 7 heroina, 8 heroin.
[ad. L. hērōīna, -īnē, a. Gr. ἡρωῑ́νη, fem. of ἥρως hero: see -ine. Cf. F. héroïne (16th c.). The Lat. form was also in Eng. use in 17th c.]
A female hero.
1. In ancient mythology, a female intermediate between a woman and a goddess; a demi-goddess.
a1659Cleveland Mt. Ida v, Next Pallas that brave Heroina came. 1725Pope Odyss. xi. Argt., He sees the shades of the ancient heroines. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. v. 149 Medea seems..to have descended..from the rank of a goddess into that of a heroine.
2. A woman distinguished by exalted courage, fortitude, or noble achievements.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 61 A Sardonix which he cut, representing the head of that famous Heroine [Queen Elizabeth]. 1697tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 85 To distinguish herself from among the Heroina's of the most famous Ages. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3796/12 Providence..raised an English Heroine to dissipate the Designs of an Universal Monarchy. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. x. 475 The greatest heroins have but one life. 1859Masson Milton I. 667 Over Scotland..there were Presbyterian heroines very many, and Presbyterian furies not a few.
3. The principal female character in a poem, story, or play; the woman in whom the interest of the piece centres.
1715J. Richardson Ess. Paint. 106 The other Saints have regard only to the Heroine of the Picture. 1782V. Knox Ess. cxxi. (R.), They..forget the hero and the heroine, the poet and the poem. 1847Tennyson Princ. Prol. 217 ‘Take Lilia, then, for heroine’ clamour'd he, ‘And make her some great Princess, six feet high’.
4. attrib. or as adj. Heroine-like, heroic.
1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3810/4 A Soul truly Great and Heroine.
5. Comb., as heroine-worship, heroine-worshipper (cf. hero-worship); heroine-like adj.
1804Something Odd I. 168 Without screaming, or fainting, or practising any other of the heroine-like graces. 1900Westm. Gaz. 1 May 4/2 Mrs. Cock has succeeded in giving a true and striking portraiture, without falling into mere heroine-worship. 1916A. Bennett Lion's Share xxiii. 165 ‘Jenny!’ Audrey protested, full of heroine-worship. 1943Beerbohm Lytton Strachey 11 He was not a hero-worshipper, or even a very gallant heroine-worshipper. 1970R. Rendell Guilty Thing Surprised ix. 111 It was a case of heroine worship on one side and a sort of flattered acceptance on the other.
Hence ˈheroine v. nonce-wd., in to heroine it, to act or play the heroine; ˈheroineship, ˈheroinism, the condition or position of a heroine; ˈheroinize v. trans., to make into a heroine.
1759Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) I. xviii. 71 She could not heroine it into so violent..an extreme as one in her situation might have wished. 1778Hist. Eliza Warwick II. 29 A noble effort of heroinism. 1815E. S. Barrett Heroine III. 174, I therefore heroinized and Heloised myself as much as possible. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 290 The heroineship of the book has passed to one of the daughters of Lady Juliana. 1887Graphic 16 Apr. 414 Both qualifications for heroinism are combined by Rhona Lascelles. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. xi. 210 Her sense of heroineship. |