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hardihood
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Hardihood
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har·di·hood
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ˈhɑr
diˌhʊd
/
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[
hahr
-dee-h
oo
d
]
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noun
1.
boldness or daring; courage.
2.
audacity or impudence.
3.
strength; power; vigor:
the hardihood of youth.
4.
hardy
spirit or character; determination to survive; fortitude:
the hardihood of early settlers.
Origin:
1625–35;
hardy
1
+
-hood
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hardihood
(ˈhɑːdɪˌhʊd)
—
n
courage, daring, or audacity
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Example sentences
The did not seem to realize that they exemplified truly astonishing courage and
hardihood
.
Far several decades the townsfolk have held annually their memorial service for
those who have paid for
hardihood
with life.
When she will be launched no mundane being has the
hardihood
to say.
They would not be here if they did not bear within them the
hardihood
of
pioneers, a courage of no mean order.
Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of
hardihood
, and human life with no use for
hardihood
would be contemptible.
He says he will make a record for the walk that no one will have the
hardihood
to attempt to beat in the near future.
They might not dare to open the great charter which had been won by their
hardihood
and patriotism.
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