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noun

Hardiness n.

Capability of endurance.

Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. "Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother." "They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king."

Hardship; fatigue. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hardiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... inflicted by your first operation. Your eyes are entirely inadequate for the merciless exactions of a life of art. You are at best but a delicate hot-house plant-beyond human power to develop into sufficient hardiness to be transplanted into the world of Bohemia, or into much of any world save a sheltered one. You can never be ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... besides their being an obstacle to actions that are to be done on the sudden, are a disadvantage to those that make use of them. Lead an army pure, and of chosen men, composed of all such as have extraordinary strength of body and hardiness of soul; but do you send away the timorous part, lest they run away in the time of action, and so afford an advantage to your enemies. Do you also give leave to those that have lately built them houses, and have not yet lived in them a year's ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... decrepit till I again saunter into the garden in my slippers and without my hat in all weathers—a point I am determined to regain, if possible; for even this experience cannot make me resign my temperance and my hardiness. I am tired of the world, its politics, its pursuits, and its pleasures; but it will cost me some struggles before I submit to be tender and careful. Christ! can I ever stoop to the regimen of old age? I do not wish to dress up a withered person, nor drag it about to public places; but ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... sword, and this shall be a great reproach to you and your court; for no man liveth of greater ability and prowess than this same knight Balin, and much good will he do you. It is a great pity he may not live to serve you with his strength and hardiness." ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

... countries did not abound either in gold or silver; nor were their rustic hamlets and townships enriched by commerce or decorated by the arts of luxury. But the natives of the soil have been distinguished in every age by their hardiness of mind and body; and they were converted by a prudent institution into the firmest and most faithful supporters of the Ottoman greatness. [53] The vizier of Amurath reminded his sovereign that, according to the Mahometan law, he was ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

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