heroinely

English

Etymology

From heroine +‎ -ly.

Adjective

heroinely (comparative more heroinely, superlative most heroinely)

1. (rare) Of, befitting, characteristic of, or related to a heroine, a female hero.
   • 2012, Fiona Robertson, The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott‎^[1]:

     Between 1818, when The Heart of Mid-Lothian reinvented the heroinely heart, and 1824, when Redgauntlet signalled Scott's joint reclamation of his complex literary heritage and of his simplest personal fantasy, the literary world changed.