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Definition of Heroising
1. heroise [v] - See also: heroise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroising
Literary usage of Heroising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1887)
"That the first figure is the deceased is shown by his greater stature, in accordance
with the usual custom of heroising the dead, and also by the ..."
2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1876)
"salient objection of too greatly heroising Calvin. Events are looked at too much
as they bear on the carrying forward of his peculiar concerns and interests ..."
3. New Chapters in Greek History: Historical Results of Recent Excavations in by Percy Gardner (1892)
"Such heroising of any man who was in his life at all distinguished was usual in
all parts of Greece, and at all periods of Greek history. ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"In the more harmful, the " dreadfuls" and criminal-heroising class, he declined
to deal, though he could have done so profitably. He would not, he said, ..."
5. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"In regard to Pindar and Bacchylides, the idealising and heroising tendencies of
the age may be compared with the contemporary tendency of vase-paintings, ..."
6. Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens: Being a Translation of a Portion of by Pausanias, Jane Ellen Harrison, Margaret de Gaudrion Merrifield Verrall (1890)
"Here we have more of conscious heroising, of intentional myth-making, than about
Cecrops or Erechtheus. Theseus is carefully modelled after Herakles ..."
7. British Poets of the Revolution Age: (Burns, Byron, Moore, Scott, Shelley by William Clarke Robinson (1900)
"The heroising of one man generally means the enslaving of thousands—just as the
enriching of one man generally means the poverty of thousands. ..."
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