ur-hero

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

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noun

"It has all been foretold, forelived, Tridib being, so to speak, the novel's ur-imagination, ur-hero, ur-narrator."
"The hero myths we have, those available to us for comparison, are primarily from strongly patriarchal societies, and it is to the patriarchal ur-hero that emerges from these myths [...]"

From ur- + hero.

ur-heroes (plural)

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