Hardihood

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness. countable, uncountable

    "[…] he came to impart other news; to prepare the Earl for death; for the morrow was appointed for his execution. He received the intelligence with the firm hardihood of indignant virtue, disdaining to solicit, and disdaining to repine […]"

  2. 2
    the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger wordnet
  3. 3
    Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance. countable, uncountable

    "[…] that God should enact a dispensation for hard hearts to do that wherby they must live in priviledg’d adultery, however it go for the receav’d opinion, I shall ever disswade my self from so much hardihood as to beleeve:"

  4. 4
    Ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness. (of a plant) countable, uncountable

    "The cheapness and hardihood of the musk-plant and marigold, to say nothing of their peculiar odour, has made them the most popular of “roots” […]"

Etymology

From hardy + -hood. Compare Dutch hardigheid (“hardness, callousness”), German Hartigkeit (“hardness”).

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