Courage
['kʌrɪdʒ] or [ 'kɝrɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear.
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Definition
(n.) The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
(n.) Heart; inclination; desire; will.
(n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fearlessness (from reflection or a sense of duty), BRAVERY, valor, gallantry, prowess, intrepidity, heroism, boldness, daring, spirit, resolution, fortitude, hardihood, pluck, SPUNK, backbone.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bravery, boldness, valor, pluck, fortitude, resolution, gallantry,fearlessness, intrepidity
ANT:Timidity, cowardice, pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardliness
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Definition
n. the quality that enables men to meet dangers without fear: bravery: spirit.—interj. take courage!—adj. Courā′geous full of courage: brave.—adv. Courā′geously.—n. Courā′geousness.—Dutch courage a fictitious courage induced by drinking; Pluck up one's courage to nerve one's self to something daring; The courage of one's convictions courage to act up to or consistently with one's opinions.
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Examples
- There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have little moral courage; the want of it is my bane. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Therein that first classe I was, thence I had been watching him; but there I could not find courage to await his approach. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Take it and read it to me, for I have neither the strength nor the courage to do it myself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nay, he appeared so much otherwise, that his daughter's courage failed. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You left him a sup o' wine, I hope, Bob (turning to Mr. Moore), to keep his courage up? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His courage was prodigious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am told many of these persons think about her, sir, I went ongaining courage on finding that I met attention rather than repulse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Truthful we both were; he from pride and courage, I from a sort of abstract ideality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Courage and ambition, when not regulated by benevolence, are fit only to make a tyrant and public robber. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Courage, my poet! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One of the officers now came forward: General, he said, we neither fear the courage, nor arms, the open attack, nor secret ambush of the Moslems. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I will plant your standard; and when you see it wave from yon highest minaret, you may gain courage, and rally round it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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