Valor
['vælə]
Definition
(n.) Value; worth.
(n.) Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity.
(n.) A brave man; a man of valor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bravery (especially in war), courage, prowess, boldness, spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COURAGE]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A soldierly compound of vanity duty and the gambler's hope.
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Examples
- He has been proposed for the silver medal of valor. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No scorn, no hardness, no valor any more! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Inspired by this happy failure, my valor became utterly uncontrollable, and at intervals I absolutely whistled, though on a moderate key. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let them hope for perpetual peace and harmony with that enemy, whose manhood, however mistaken the cause, drew forth such herculean deeds of valor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- However brave the followers are, unless the leader is equally so, their valor is not of much use, as it lacks discipline and trust in the general. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They did go back; they took the Malakoff and retook it two or three times, but their desperate valor could not avail, and they had to give up at last. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The father in 1811, at the age of twenty, was one of Napoleon's conscripts, and in 1814 received from the Emperor, for valor and fidelity, the Cross of t he Legion of Honor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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