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stoutheartedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From stouthearted + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Courage, pluck, boldness.
   • Horatius, on duty when the enemy attacked, displayed a stoutheartedness unmatched by his companions. He kept them from running away by promising to hold off the enemy while they destroyed the bridge behind him. 1979, Finley Hooper, Roman Realities, →ISBN, page 37:
2. (uncountable) Resoluteness, fortitude, dauntlessness.
   • In a vacant gesture the foreman began making rounds during breakfast, glad-handing the men as they sulked over their porridge and coffee, reminding them of their fortitude and stoutheartedness. 2012, Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road, →ISBN:
   • The oak (Quercus pedunculata and Q. sessiliflord) our national tree is an emblem of British stoutheartedness and of the British constitution ; which like the tree has continued longer than most of its fellows. 1870, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, The book of nature and the book of man, page 88:

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