hardihood
Americannoun
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boldness or daring; courage.
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audacity or impudence.
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strength; power; vigor.
the hardihood of youth.
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hardy spirit or character; determination to survive; fortitude.
the hardihood of early settlers.
noun
Etymology
Origin of hardihood
Vocabulary lists containing hardihood
"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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"On Women's Right to Vote"
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Example Sentences
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All week the “atmospheric river” took huge dragon bites out of local coastlines, but the 49ers practiced outside in an exhibition of prideful, defiant hardihood.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023
He has faith and the hardihood of being in the prime of life, but even Letlow at Christmas was taken away, temporarily, from his lovely young family by this pandemic.
From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2020
“And yet Andrew Johnson, with unblushing hardihood, undertook to rule them by his own power alone.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
But the Tribe has had to do many unorthodox things to get this far, and asking such olden-times hardihood from Kluber is of a piece with the whole team’s character.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2016
In what is left, let all who fight the Enemy in their fashion be at one, and keep hope while they may, and after hope still the hardihood to die free.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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