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Webster 1913 Edition
Hardiness
Har′di-ness
(-dĭ-nĕs)
, Noun.
1.
Capability of endurance.
2.
Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of
Of
hardiness
is mother. Shakespeare
They who were not yet grown to the
hardiness
of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.
3.
Hardship; fatigue.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hardiness
H`ARDINESS
, n.1.
Boldness; firm courage; intrepidity; stoutness; bravery; applied to the mind, it is synonymous with hardihood.2.
Firmness of body derived from laborious exercises.3.
Hardship; fatigue.4.
Excess of confidence; assurance; effrontery.