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au·dac·i·ty    Audio Help   [aw-das-i-tee] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -ties.
1.boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
2.effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness: His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer.
3.Usually, audacities. audacious acts or statements.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME audacite < L audāc-, s. of audāx daring (adj.) + -ite -ity]

1. nerve, spunk, grit, temerity, foolhardiness. 2. impudence, impertinence, brashness.
1, 2. discretion, prudence.
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au·dac·i·ty    Audio Help   (ô-dās'ĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. au·dac·i·ties
  1. Fearless daring; intrepidity.
  2. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.
  3. An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness: warned the students than any audacities committed during the graduation ceremony would be punished.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
audacity 
1432, from M.L. audacitas "boldness," from L. audacis gen. of audax "brave," but more often "bold" in a bad sense, from audere "to dare, be bold."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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audacity

noun
1. fearless daring 
2. aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision" 

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Audacity

Au*dac"i*ty\, n. 1. Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.

The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men. --Tatler.

2. Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.

With the most arrogant audacity. --Joye.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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