valor
boldness or determination in facing great danger, especially in battle; heroic courage; bravery: a medal for valor.
Origin of valor
1- Also especially British, val·our .
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How to use valor in a sentence
He discoursed largely and bravely to me concerning the different sort of valours, the active and passive valour.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysWe thank your valours: A victory without blood is twice achieved,And the disposure of it, to us tender'd, The greatest honour.
The Plays of Philip Massinger | Philip MassingerManners of ripe maidens have they, and hearts of brothers, and valours of bears, and furies of lions.
Men must still prove their right to each and all of their laboriously-won achievements by arms and the valours of war.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyAs Nature destined, the woman-heart goes out to those virtues and valours which are the natural complement of her own.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella Kenealy
Other Idioms and Phrases with valor
see discretion is the better part of valor.
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