valiant
adjEtymology
From Middle English vailaunt (“having or showing courage or valour, valiant; characterized by valour; powerful, strong; person of valour or strength; excellent, worthy; beneficial, useful; valuable; legally valid, binding”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vaillaunt, vaylant [and other forms], and Old French vailant, vaillant (“brave, valiant; having value, valuable”) [and other forms], from the present participle of valoir (“to have value; to be worth”), from Latin valēre (“to have value; to be worth; to be strong; to have influence or power”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“powerful, strong; to rule”).
Definitions
Possessing or showing courage or determination
Possessing or showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.
- A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
Characterized by or done with bravery or valour.
- another valiant attempt at rescue
- She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, [...]
A person who acts with valour, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger.
- Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: [...]
- O yee Angells, yee Champions and valiants of the court of heauen, and ſtout ſoldiers of Chriſt your King, who euerie one ſingle is able to encounter and to defeat the greateſt armie that euer was ſeene on earth, where are you?
- No Sailer vvith the Nevvs ſvvell Egypt’s Pride. / By vvhat inglorious Fate our Valiant dy’d!
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Derived
pot-valiant, potvaliant, valiance, valiantly, valiantness, valor, valour
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at valiant. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at valiant. 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 valiant
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