hardihood

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Unyielding boldness and daring

   Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness.

   • […] he came to impart other news; to prepare the Earl for death; for the morrow was appointed for his execution. He received the intelligence with the firm hardihood of indignant virtue, disdaining to solicit, and disdaining to repine […]
   • Once endured it is enjoyed as my owndom. Elsewhere I refer to this process of enduring hardship as the only possible source of hardihood.
2. 2

   Excessive boldness

   Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.

   • […] that God should enact a dispensation for hard hearts to do that wherby they must live in priviledg’d adultery, however it go for the receav’d opinion, I shall ever disswade my self from so much hardihood as to beleeve:
   • I have not the hardihood to dare to be vilely dishonest.
   • I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.
3. 3

   Of a plant, an ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness.

   • The cheapness and hardihood of the musk-plant and marigold, to say nothing of their peculiar odour, has made them the most popular of “roots” […]
   • Now, as green sap ascends the steepled wood, Each hedge with such white bloom astounds our eyes As sprang from Joseph’s rod, and testifies How best beauty’s born of hardihood.
   • It’s hardihood that thrives, As when a screw pine that the gale has downed, Shooting new prop-roots from its trunk, survives In bristling disarray by change of ground,

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