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Definition of Heroics
1. Noun. Ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct. "Heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood"
Definition of Heroics
1. Noun. The actions of a hero. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heroics
1. heroic [n] - See also: heroic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroics
Literary usage of Heroics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student in Arms by Donald Hankey (1917)
"XX HEROES AND heroics "FACILE descensus Averni," and the Avernus of the journalist
in war time is a fatal facility for writing heroics. ..."
2. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE CODE—heroics There were three in the meadow by the brook, Gathering up
windrows, piling haycocks up, With an eye always lifted toward the west, ..."
3. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... Pope—Johnson—The partial return to Dryden — Savage—Churchill—Goldsmith—Crabbe—Sir
Eustace Grey, etc.—The heroics—Cowper—His early poems—Table Talk, etc. ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"If conjecture in re- dislike of gard to the authorship could be safely indulged,
it heroics. would ..."
5. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"ELEGIAC heroics. § 669. These are the sarno as the common heroics, except that
the lines regularly alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. ..."
6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"heroics are what the real hero does not indulge in: He showed no enthusiasm,
however, and merely remarked, without heroics, that it was up to him — NY ..."
7. The Musical Basis of Verse: A Scientific Study of the Principles of Poetic by Julia Parker Dabney (1901)
"... CHAPTER VI heroics THE dividing line between the larger forms of poetic art
and the smaller is the personal one. ..."
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