stoutheartedness

See also: stout-heartedness

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

stouthearted +‎ -ness

Noun

stoutheartedness (uncountable)

  1. Courage, pluck, boldness.
    • 1979, Finley Hooper, Roman Realities, →ISBN, page 37:
      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.
  2. Resoluteness, fortitude, dauntlessness.
    • 2012, Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 1870, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, The book of nature and the book of man, page 88:
      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.
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