Dictionary

valorous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈvælərəs/ (General-American)
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Etymology

From Old French valeureux.

Meanings

1. Having or displaying valour.
   • […] I shall be at York—at the head of my daring and valorous fellows, as ready to support any bold design as thy policy can be to form one. 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
   • […] he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
   • There are many valorous stories told of her, which enthral grown men as well as children. 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 139:
   • For all its pragmatic public-health spade work, the foundation has also served as a kind of valorous abstraction — the seeming embodiment of “the Golden Rule,” in a phrase that Bill Gates likes to use, and the face of an increasingly anachronistic era of elite optimism. 2025 May 8, David Wallace-Wells, “Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • c. 1490, William Caxton (translator), The Boke of Eneydos, Westminster, Preface, this present booke compyled by virgyle ryght subtyl and Ingenyous oratour & poete Intytuled Eneydos hath be translated oute of latyn in to comyn langage In whiche may alle valyaunt prynces and other nobles see many valorous fayttes of armes.
   • He held up the glass. ‘To your valorous wounds. To the silver medal. […]’ 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book I, page 75:

Forms

Deriveds

invalorous · valorousness · valorously · unvalorous

Synonyms

valiant

Translations (1)

es valeroso (brave)