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noun

Valor n. (Written also valour)

Value; worth. (Obs.) "The valor of a penny."

Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. "For contemplation he and valor formed." "When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with." "Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor."

A brave man; a man of valor. (R.)

Synonyms: Courage; heroism; bravery; gallantry; boldness; fearlessness. See Courage, and Heroism.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the shipping, took the fort, expelled the Egyptian soldiers from it, and put a Roman garrison into it instead, and then returned in safety within Caesar's lines. Cleopatra witnessed these exploits from her palace windows with feelings of the highest admiration for the energy and valor ...

— Cleopatra • Jacob Abbott

... affairs, we certainly manage them with more elegance, and better than they did; and as to our republic, that our ancestors have, beyond all dispute, formed on better customs and laws. What shall I say of our military affairs; in which our ancestors have been most eminent in valor, and still more so in discipline? As to those things which are attained not by study, but nature, neither Greece, nor any nation, is comparable to us; for what people has displayed such gravity, such steadiness, such greatness of soul, probity, faith—such distinguished virtue ...

— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... I.e. not bearing a braggart inscription, but putting confidence in his own valor. [Greek: ou] was rightly thrown out ...

— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

... of his writings, speeches, and declarations, and there is not for the world an uplifting or new thought within them all. What appears to be new is the echo of an age that was supposed to be long past—when might was rule and valor was religion. ...

— The Audacious War • Clarence W. Barron

... the admiral's discretion more than the battle had his valor. It was necessary to encourage the insurgents, at the same time to prevent excesses on their part, and to avoid recognizing them even as allies in such manner as to involve our Government. Another embarrassment, threatening for a time, was the German admiral's impertinence. One of his warships ...

— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

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