hardihood

[ hahr-dee-hood ]

/ ˈhɑr diˌhʊd /

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noun

boldness or daring; courage.

audacity or impudence.

strength; power; vigor: the hardihood of youth.

hardy spirit or character; determination to survive; fortitude: the hardihood of early settlers.

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Origin of hardihood

First recorded in 1625–35; hardy¹ + -hood

Words nearby hardihood

hard-hit, hard hitter, hard-hitting, Hardicanute, Hardie, hardihood, hardily, hardiment, Hardin, hardiness, Harding

How to use hardihood in a sentence

The losing side sometimes has the hardihood to think a decision is wrong.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
The young knights to prove their hardihood danced in the armor worn all day,—chain mail jingling in time to the castanets.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis
In the wisdom of Socrates you see some higher force than intellectual hardihood or intellectual clearness.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
In carrying away this booty they passed, with great hardihood, close to the fortified post called "Trompetter's Drift."
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

The vigor of our culture and the hardihood of our institutions are more manifest out of Massachusetts than in it.
Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions|George S. Boutwell

British Dictionary definitions for hardihood

hardihood

/ (ˈhɑːdɪˌhʊd) /

noun

courage, daring, or audacity

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