1_million_words | Word of the Day 12/06/24 Hardihood

Hardihood (noun)
hardihood [ hahr-dee-hood ]

noun
1. boldness or daring; courage.
2. audacity or impudence.
3. strength; power; vigor: the hardihood of youth.
4. hardy spirit or character; determination to survive; fortitude: the hardihood of early settlers.

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Origin: First recorded in 1625–35; hardy + -hood

Example Sentences
All week the “atmospheric river” took huge dragon bites out of local coastlines, but the 49ers practiced outside in an exhibition of prideful, defiant hardihood.
From Washington Post

When we got back, he had the hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honour, and to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death.
From Literature

He has faith and the hardihood of being in the prime of life, but even Letlow at Christmas was taken away, temporarily, from his lovely young family by this pandemic.
From Washington Times

“And yet Andrew Johnson, with unblushing hardihood, undertook to rule them by his own power alone.”
From The New Yorker

To which Roosevelt countered, “I have no sympathy whatever with the overwrought sentimentality that would keep a young man in cotton wool. I have a hearty contempt for him if he counts a broken arm or collarbone as of serious consequences when balanced against the chance of showing that he possesses hardihood, physical prowess, and courage.”
From Washington Post

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