hardiment
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hardiment
Example Sentences
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But the lion is hardier than you all, that of his hardiment hath lowered the bridge.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
And none of them all lived in his knighthood but twelve years, and they all died in arms for their great hardiment in setting forward of the Law that was made new.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
He had slain on a day that is past, Logrin the Giant, by his hardiment.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
Of Mortimer, in "changing hardiment with great Glendower": "Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink, Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood."
From The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin
The four knights were upon their horses all armed, but no mind had they come a-nigh him, for sore dreaded they the huge buffets he dealt, and his hardiment.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
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