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warhero en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of war hero.
   alt of war hero
   • Then the warhero, Wiglaf, ordered many of the fightingmen, faithful comrades, who were householders, that they heap up wood, fetched from afar, for the folk chieftain, for their hero-king. 2010, Ruth P.M. Legmann, Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, page 104:
   • Here we find a story of a real warhero interwoven with scriptural text just to raise the religious spirit of warriors [unintelligible], as well as among the farmers. 1973, Homi R. Bana, A Study of Tir Yasht, page 38:
   • Thomas Hardwick, a bachelor, a warhero and a scholar, had adopted a tiny, helpless infant he had found while fighting in the desert. 1989, Aviva Hellman, To Touch a Dream, page 210:
   • I saw him playing with that warhero gun, talking about loving life and nature. 1974, Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, page 60:
   • Major Hengist Agnew, warhero and second son of the Earl of Loghaire, unwittingly deceives the London Regency Ton by taking his brother Lord Philip Morvern's place at important events and even in his marital bed. 2015, C. Hampton Jones, A Major in Distress, Part 2: Death's Sting:
   • I said—I ain't no fucking warhero. I said—nobody shot my hand off, goddamnit. 1978, John A. Gould, The Greenleaf Fires, page 207:

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