noun
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A female hero.
definition
A female lead character.
Examples of heroine in a Sentence
Newly crowned heroine Lydia Larkin won the election by eight votes.
The story of the heroine is annually celebrated by a play in which the villagers take part.
Medea is the heroine of extant tragedies of Euripides and Seneca; those of Aeschylus and Ennius (adapted from Euripides) are lost.
I am the very model of a heroine barbarian!
During the latter part of the 19th century a popular cult of the Maid of Orleans sprang up in France, being greatly stimulated by the clerical party, which desired to advertise, in the person of this national heroine, the intimate union between patriotism and the Catholic faith, and for this purpose ardently desired her enrolment among the Saints.
The heroine is the great-great-granddaughter of his former hero, Richard Carvel.
The book concludes with a brief notice of the closing years of the heroine.
Neither of these men gets past our heroine's frosty carapace.
Flora McDonald, the famous Scottish heroine, came to Campbelltown in April 1775 with her husband and children, and here she seems to have lived during the remainder of that year.
It is a serious flaw in the play that the fate of the heroine is virtually decided before the curtain rises, and the poet is obliged to create by theatrical devices the semblance of a tragic conflict which, in reality, does not exist.
She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by Francois Ponsard, Agnes de 161eranie.
Belfair, she explained, in rapid-fire falsetto, was the heroine of a series of intergalactic romances she was writing.
I wanted to create a heroine who was like me - slightly chaotic, overweight, shy, and always trying to please everyone.
In her self-revelations she followed Rousseau, her first master in style, but while Rousseau in his Confessions darkened all the shadows, George Sand is the heroine of her story, often frail and faulty, but always a woman more sinned against than sinning.
Ayala persuaded his sister to appear as the heroine of his comedy, La primera Dama, and the innovation, if it scandalized some of his townsmen, permitted him to develop his talent more freely.
Four years afterwards he made his first appearance as an author with an elegy called Fame's Memorial, or the Earl of Devonshire deceased, and dedicated to the widow of the earl (Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, "coronized," to use Ford's expression, by King James in 1603 for his services in Ireland) - a lady who would have been no unfitting heroine for one of his own tragedies of lawless passion, the famous Penelope, formerly Lady Rich.
The Druids are represented as being able to foretell the future and to perform magic. Before setting out on the great expedition against Ulster, Medb, queen of Connaught, goes to consult her Druid, and just before the famous heroine Derdriu (Deirdre) is born, Cathbu prophesies what sort of a woman she will be.
So too all the old national heroes and heroines ultimately became prophets; in the case of Deborah there is even a fusion in local tradition between an old heroine and an historical seer.
It takes its name from the heroine Judith ('IouSLO, 'IovM7)0, i.e.
Tellheim, the hero of the comedy, is an admirable study of a manly and sensitive soldier, with somewhat exaggerated ideas of conventional honour; and Minna, the heroine, is one of the brightest and most attractive figures in German comedy.
It is chiefly remarkable for the beautiful portrait of Marguerite, the heroine, drawn from the character of his own wife.
Lowell was already looked upon by his companions as a man marked by wit and poetic sentiment; Miss White was admired for her beauty, her character and her intellectual gifts, and the two became thus the hero and heroine among a group of ardent young men and women.
There are several monuments to the heroine, and a modern basilica has been erected in her honour on a neighbouring hill, where she is said to have heard the voices in obedience to which she took up the sword.
From the heroine who is, in a phrase of Dryden's, "one of the coolest and most insignificant" heroines ever drawn, to the undignified Valens, the termagant Marcelle, and the peevish Placide, there is hardly a good character.
Undoubtedly, the madness of the hero of this play of Ford's occasionally recalls Hamlet, while the heroine is one of the many, and at the same time one of the most pleasing, parallels to Viola.
These legends show how closely the heroine is associated with the cult of Artemis, and with the human sacrifices which accompanied it in older times before the Hellenic spirit had modified the barbarism of this borrowed religion.
The introduction of this service book in St Giles's Church, Edinburgh, on the 16th of July 1637, occasioned the tumult of which Jenny Geddes will always figure as the heroine.
Its heroine Gudrun is the most famous of all Icelandic ladies.
She'd had enough when she found out I was taking drugs - by the age of 18 I was sniffing cocaine and heroine.
She looks like a young Sigourney Weaver and plays the naive heroine well, if a little too credulous for my taste.
Ben's sister, Alice, is the eponymous heroine of the first novel.
Originally, Helen was perhaps a goddess of light, a moon-goddess, who was gradually transformed into the beautiful heroine round whom the action of the Iliad revolves.
There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni Hagyomeinai (Fanny's testament).
In this direction lies Chapelizod, said to take its name from that Iseult whom Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and Wagner made a heroine; beyond which is Lucan connected with the city by tramway.
As was shown later, he imported into his view of politics a warm sentiment and an imaginative outlook; and he was an enthusiastic student of Lord Beaconsfield's political novels, more particularly of Sybil, after the heroine in which he named one of his daughters.
Quicherat's great work, Le Proces de Jeanne d'Arc (1841-1849), a collection of the texts so full and so vivid that they reveal the character and life of the heroine with great distinctness.
She is the great unsung heroine of British feminism.
A romantic heroine is often backlit to create a halo effect on her hair.
She's sipping from a heavy amber glass tumbler, our heroine.
She 's sipping from a heavy amber glass tumbler, our heroine.
To make this comic book heroine even more formidable, she was given magic bracelets which she used to deflect bullets and her golden lasso which forced men to tell the truth.
Grace Darling would become the first heroine of the Victorian age.
Keira Knightley plays the heroine Elizabeth Bennet to general acclaim.
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park features a heroine called Fanny - should we change her name too?
They will have a heroine to send Batman back to his cave for me - won't they?
Mary Queen of Scots is Scotland's best-known tragic heroine.
Or you longed to be a brave heroine, but people laughed at you because you were a clumsy, dreamy girl?
There is a memorial in the churchyard to the Northumbrian lifeboat heroine, Grace Darling.
An opiate receptor ligand, would then only attach to the perfect opiate group, like endorphins, morphine or heroine.
The hero, wearing a giant wooden phallus with budgies painted on the end, clubs the heroine's donkey to death with it.