preheroic
English
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edit- Rhymes: -əʊɪk
Adjective
editpreheroic (not comparable)
- Before becoming a hero.
- 2014, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm, page 99:
- This final trial which the hero must endure is motivated by the reappearance of the fraternal rivals who vexed the hero in his earlier, preheroic days.
- Before heroism appeared as a literary motif.
- Antonym: postheroic