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hardihood
[ hahr-dee-hood ]
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.
hardihood
/ ˈhɑːdɪˌhʊd /
noun
- courage, daring, or audacity
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hardihood1
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Example Sentences
The losing side sometimes has the hardihood to think a decision is wrong.
The young knights to prove their hardihood danced in the armor worn all day,—chain mail jingling in time to the castanets.
In the wisdom of Socrates you see some higher force than intellectual hardihood or intellectual clearness.
In carrying away this booty they passed, with great hardihood, close to the fortified post called "Trompetter's Drift."
The vigor of our culture and the hardihood of our institutions are more manifest out of Massachusetts than in it.
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