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courage

noun
/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).

  1. inherited from ellen
  2. inherited from elne
  3. derived from cor — “heart”
  4. derived from *corāticum✻
  5. derived from corage
  6. inherited from corage

Definitions

  1. The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being…

    The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

    • A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    • There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
    • It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.

  2. The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.

    • He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
    • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

  3. The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear,…

    The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal; moral fortitude.

    • “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
    • I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
    • Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To encourage.

      • Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, to courage him, to stir him up,

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Derived

courageless, courage of one's convictions, courageous, digital courage, discourage, Dutch courage, encourage, gather up one's courage, liquid courage, pluck up one's courage, screw up one's courage, take courage, take one's courage in both hands

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at courage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at courage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at courage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA