Complete Definition of "herculean"

English

Alternative spellings
Herculean

Adjective
herculean

  1. see Herculean

#*1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
#*:Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.

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