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Courage
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate. uncountable, usually
"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
- 2 a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear wordnet
- 3 The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening. uncountable, usually
"He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt."
- 4 The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude. uncountable, usually
"“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”"
- 1 To encourage. obsolete
"And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo"
Etymology
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
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