Intrepidity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being intrepid; bravery. countable, uncountable

    "[…] Pipes, who acted as the enemy's forlorn hope, advanced to the gate with great intrepidity, and clapping his foot to the door, which was none of the ſtouteſt, with the execution and diſpatch of a petard, ſplit it into a thouſand pieces."

  2. 2
    resolute courageousness wordnet

Example

More examples

"Our seamen have always been famous for a matchless alacrity and intrepidity in time of danger; this has saved many a British ship, when other seamen would have run below deck, and left the ship to the mercy of the waves, or, perhaps, of a more cruel enemy, a pirate."

Etymology

From intrepid + -ity.

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