mettle
Use Mettle in a sentence
l noun
Idioms 1.
courage and fortitude: a man of mettle.
2.
disposition or temperament: a man of fine mettle.
3.
on one's mettle, in the position of being incited to do one's best: The loss of the first round put him on his mettle to win the match.
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| —n | |
| 1. | courage; spirit |
| 2. | inherent character |
| 3. | on one's mettle roused to putting forth one's best efforts |
| [C16: originally variant spelling of | |
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Word Origin & History
mettle
1581, variant spelling of metal, both of which were used interchangeably (by Shakespeare and others) in the literal sense and in the figurative sense of "stuff of which a person is made" until the spellings and senses diverged early 18c.
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Example sentences
For every instrument, there is music that tests a player's mettle.
He should give us a chance to judge his mettle on the largest political stage.
It is when something unexpected goes wrong that a company really shows its mettle.
The industry intends to use its monster warehouse to test the mettle of airplanes, trucks, and even wind turbines.
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