hardihood
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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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 TatlowThe 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 DavisIn the wisdom of Socrates you see some higher force than intellectual hardihood or intellectual clearness.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordIn 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. NolanThe 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
/ (ˈhɑːdɪˌhʊd) /
courage, daring, or audacity
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