单词 | heroicity |
释义 | heroicityn. Heroic nature or quality, esp. of virtue; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] heroicalness1647 heroicism1648 heroicness1648 heroicity1810 1810 N. G. Dufief New Universal & Pronouncing Dict. III. 229/2 Héroïcité, heroicity. 1845 Brit. Mag. 1 Jan. 10 It remained for the advocates of ‘a deeper and more poetical religion’ to reckon ill smells and nasty habits among the notes of sanctity and the heroicities of virtue. 1847 F. W. Faber Life St. Rose of Lima p. xi [A work] which treats of heroic virtue and what constitutes its heroicity. 1906 Catholic World Nov. 253 The very wickedness of assassination gives to it a halo of heroicity, coupled as it is with the extremity of self-sacrifice. 1997 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6th Ser. 7 76 Heroicity survives here as the prerogative of a few gifted individuals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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