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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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"Valor" Quotes from Famous Books

... charge of the music. All prospered; yet the boat-builder and the three brothers were never quite contented, for they had roamed the seas too long; and they longed for a new enterprise for their idle valor. They thought they had found this when one day they found on the sea-coast a group of women tearing their hair, and when they asked the explanation, "Senor," said an old woman, "our sons and our husbands have again fallen into the hand ...

— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... pay the toil That follows still the conquering Right, With soft, white hands to dress the spoil That sunbrowned valor ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... of the events of the war. Our people are united on this point so far as to pursue it with vigor to a speedy termination. However John Bull may sneer and endeavor to detract from the valor of our troops, his own annals do not furnish proofs of greater skill and more fearless daring and successful result. The Mexican race is a worn-out race, and God in his Providence is taking this mode to regenerate them. ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

... overcame all your young men in the sports, and how your people honored him with song and dance and laurel crown. But when your king, this same AEgeus who stands before me now, saw how everybody ran after him and praised his valor, he was filled with envy and laid plans to kill him. Whether he caused armed men to waylay him on the road to Thebes, or whether as some say he sent him against a certain wild bull of your country to ...

— Old Greek Stories • James Baldwin

... that night, and Mr. Vane saw the same creature, who dared not stay where she was liable to a distant rat, spring upon the stage as a gay rake, and flash out her rapier, and act valor's king to the life, and seem ready to eat up everybody, King Fear included; and then, after her brilliant sally upon the public, Sir Harry Wildair came and stood beside Mr. Vane. Her bright skin, contrasted with her powdered periwig, became dazzling. She used little ...

— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade

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