Damn, you're fast on the REPLY button! As I was trying to add:
Typos: Captain Valor and Deidre had talked → Deirdre
Of course "heroine" isn't a diminutive morphologically/etymologically. But equally of-course, in modern use a "heroine" is usually understood to be secondary to the "hero", if there is one. And that certainly diminishes the meaning of the word.
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Date: 2014-02-05 04:54 am (UTC)Typos:
Captain Valor and Deidre had talked
→ Deirdre
Of course "heroine" isn't a diminutive morphologically/etymologically. But equally of-course, in modern use a "heroine" is usually understood to be secondary to the "hero", if there is one. And that certainly diminishes the meaning of the word.