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Webster 1913 Edition

(här′dĭ-hoŏd)

Noun.

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Hardy

-hood

Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

A bound of graceful

hardihood

Wordsworth.

Syn. – Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity; effrontery; impudence.

Noun.

[See Hardy and Hood.] Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; dauntless bravery; intrepidity.

It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to

iniquity.

Hardihead and hardiment, in the sense of hardihood, are obsolete.