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Webster 1913 Edition
Hardiness
Har′di-ness
(-dĭ-nĕs)
, Noun.
1.
Capability of endurance.
2.
Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of
Of
hardiness
is mother. Shakespeare
They who were not yet grown to the
hardiness
of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.
3.
Hardship; fatigue.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hardiness
H`ARDINESS
, n.1.
Boldness; firm courage; intrepidity; stoutness; bravery; applied to the mind, it is synonymous with hardihood.2.
Firmness of body derived from laborious exercises.3.
Hardship; fatigue.4.
Excess of confidence; assurance; effrontery.Definition 2024
hardiness
hardiness
English
Noun
hardiness (countable and uncountable, plural hardinesses)
- The state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
- (obsolete) hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance
- Shakespeare, Cymbeline
- Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
- Clarendon
- They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
- Shakespeare, Cymbeline
- (obsolete) hardship; fatigue
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)