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noun

Fortitude n.

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. (Obs.) "The fortitude of the place is best known to you."

That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. "Extolling patience as the truest fortitude." "Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."

Synonyms: Courage; resolution; resoluteness; endurance; bravery. See Courage, and Heroism.

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"Fortitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... inquiry as to the manner of man that Columbus was on the moral side of his character. We know that he was an enthusiast, that he was richly endowed with the practical virtues of patience, of perseverance, of continuing fortitude under difficulties, and we know that neither Spain, nor the Church, nor Pinzon the ship-builder and capitalist, nor all of them together would have made the discovery when it was made. To Columbus they were essential, but ...

— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 • George S. Boutwell

... from a German shore!" (Thus runs the sad refrain,) "Here dwelt thine Emperor, here he bore With fortitude his pain; Hear'st thou the lone, low monotone Of billows tempest-tossed? In that long roll the German soul Still mourns for ...

— Poems • John L. Stoddard

... passed—that heart-breaking era of the Great War. And now the Native Son has entered into and emerged from a new and terrible game. He has needed—and I doubt not displayed—all that he has of strength, natural and developed; of keenness and coolness; of bravery and fortitude; of capacity to endure ...

— The Native Son • Inez Haynes Irwin

... determined not to lay down their arms until due provision and a satisfactory prospect should be offered on the subject of their pay," the commander-in-chief urged Congress to do them justice, writing, "the fortitude—the long, & great suffering of this army is unexampled in history; but there is an end to all things & I fear we are very near to this. Which, more than probably will oblige me to stick very close to my flock ...

— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford

... day again dawned for Columbus. He appeared before Ferdinand, not as the accused, but as himself the accuser; then, his fortitude giving way under the remembrance of the unworthy treatment he had experienced, this unfortunate great man wept, and caused those around to weep with him. He pointed proudly to the story of his life. ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part I. The Exploration of the World • Jules Verne

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