a. and sb. (UN-1 7.)
1732. Ld. Peterborow, Lett., in Pope’s Wks. (1751), VIII. 164. If the translator of Homer find fault with this unheroic disposition.
1745. [see UN-ENGLISH a. 1].
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, v. (1904), 177. Hollow Formulism, gross Benthamism, and other unheroic atheistic Insincerity.
1881. P. Brooks, Candle of Lord, 169. The heroic moments in all of our most unheroic lives.
absol. and sb. 1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., IV. i. The Unheroic of such volumes. Ibid. An Alexandrian Library of Unheroics.
