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Definition of Heroizes
1. heroize [v] - See also: heroize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroizes
Literary usage of Heroizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"shot Lanagan, and Tommy, one of those invaluable hotel attaches, a man who heroizes
all newspapermen, and particularly Jack Lanagan, did so. ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1881)
"We could wish that more books of this class were placed within the reach of our
youth, so as to wean them from the Satanic literature that heroizes thieves ..."
3. Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities: Embracing New York by James William Buel (1883)
"... or, rather, undress; arms, busts and limbs show to much advantage, which
enriches beauty and heroizes the participants before a delighted audience. ..."
4. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 by John Quincy Adams (1877)
"He moralizes and heroizes with the British Minister Hamilton and with the
slave-mongers of Rio, till he takes a lover's leap from the sublime to the ..."
5. Evangelical Christendom: Christian Work and the News of the Churches by Evangelical Alliance (1893)
"... say here that there is a kind of language sometimes used about Him, which
seems wanting in loyalty, just because it admires and patronises and heroizes, ..."
6. Commentary on the New Testament, Intended for Popular Use by Daniel Denison Whedon (1880)
"The writing of such poetry is as profligate and demoralizing as the life it heroizes.
12. Speak...do—-The two great departments of external Christian ..."
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