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1. Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak. 2. That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without

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1. Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak. 2. That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Locke. Syn. -- Courage; resolution; resoluteness; endurance; bravery. See Courage, and Heroism.

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  • VALOROUS
    Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
  • VALORIZATION
    Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such
  • PLUCKER TUBE
    A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
  • RESOLUTIONER
    One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
  • PLUCKED
    Having courage and spirit.
  • COURAGEOUSLY
    In a courageous manner.
  • PLUCK
    To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck
  • PLUCKINESS
    The quality or state of being plucky.
  • RESOLUTIONIST
    One who makes a resolution.
  • VALOR
    1. Value; worth. "The valor of a penny." Sir T. More. 2. Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. For contemplation he and valor
  • PLUCKY
    Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.
  • COURAGE
    OF. corage, F. courage, fr. a LL. derivative of L. cor heart. See 1. The heart; spirit; temper; disposition. So priketh hem nature in here corages. Chaucer. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes
  • RESOLUTION
    The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. (more info) 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of
  • PLUCKLESS
    Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.
  • INTREPIDITY
    The quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor. Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity. Addison. Syn. -- Courage; heroism; bravery;
  • BOLDNESS
    The state or quality of being bold. Syn. -- Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.
  • FORTITUDE
    1. Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak. 2. That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without
  • PLUCKILY
    In a plucky manner.
  • BRAVERY
    1. The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak. 2. The act of braving; defiance; bravado. Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons.
  • PLUCKER
    1. One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak. 2. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
  • ACCOURAGE
    To encourage.
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • DISCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
  • SCOURAGE
    Refuse water after scouring.
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
  • DISCOURAGER
    One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.
  • INVALOROUS
    Not valorous; cowardly.

 

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