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Webster 1913 Edition

Boldness

Bold′ness

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Noun.
The state or quality of being bold.
Syn. – Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.

Webster 1828 Edition

Boldness

BOLDNESS

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Noun.
Courage; bravery; intrepidity; spirit; fearlessness. I cannot, with Johnson, interpret this word by fortitude or magnanimity. Boldness does not, I think, imply the firmness of mind, which constitutes fortitude,nor the elevation and generosity of magnanimity.
1.
Prominence; the quality of exceeding the ordinary rules of scrupulous nicety and caution; applied to style, expression, and metaphors in language; and to figures in painting, sculpture and architecture.
2.
Freedom from timidity; liberty.
Great is my boldness of speech towards you. 2 Cor.7.
3.
Confidence; confident trust.
We have boldness and access with confidence. Eph.3.
4.
Freedom from bashfulness; assurance; confident mien.
5.
Prominence; steepness; as the boldness of the shore.
6.
Excess of freedom, bordering on impudence.

Definition 2025

boldness

boldness

English

Noun

boldness ‎(usually uncountable, plural boldnesses)

  1. The state of being bold; courage.
    • Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
      Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
  2. presumptuousness
  3. (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:courage

Translations

Etymology

bold +‎ -ness

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