Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroinism
Literary usage of Heroinism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"... insistently in mind) will find the Float of masculine character more abundant
in his gold-bearing mountains than the surface indications of heroinism. ..."
2. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"And certainly no modern study of the voluptuous temperament, and the spurious
heroism and heroinism which its ecstasies produce, can add much to "Antony and ..."
3. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"... or heroinism and how much it is a matter of a certain mild integrating
psychopathic trend must be left to the future to decide. ..."
4. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"I heard it told, times without number, and never contradicted it. It sounded
well, and I had a passion for heroinism, on never so small a scale. ..."
5. Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton (1887)
"According to a contemporary biography of her,1 ' Hannah, when she was scarce Ten
Years of Age, had the seeds of heroinism, ..."
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