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adjective

Brave adj. (compar. braver; superl. bravest)

1.

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

2.

Having any sort of superiority or excellence; especially such as in conspicuous. (Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.) "Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth." "It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall."

3.

Making a fine show or display. (Archaic) "Wear my dagger with the braver grace." "For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color." "Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots."

Synonyms: Courageous; gallant; daring; valiant; valorous; bold; heroic; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; magnanimous; high-spirited; stout-hearted. See Gallant.

verb

Brave v. t. (past & past part. braved; pres. part. braving)

1.

To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare. "These I can brave, but those I can not bear."

2.

To adorn; to make fine or showy. (Obs.) "Thou (a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating) hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved."

noun

Brave n.

1.

A brave person; one who is daring. "The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

2.

Specifically, an Indian warrior.

3.

A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. "Hot braves like thee may fight."

4.

A challenge; a defiance; bravado. (Obs.) "Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; And so in this, to bear me down with braves."

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"Brave" Quotes from Famous Books

... finally abandoned. Poor Lundy! that meeting was a damper to his feelings." There is no doubt that Garrison was one of the very few present, who "were for bold and decisive action" against the iniquity. The grief and disappointment of his brave friend touched his heart with a brother's affection and pity. The worldly wisdom and lukewarmness of the clergy kindled a righteous indignation within his freedom-loving soul. This was his first bitter lesson from the clergy. There were, alas, many and bitterer ...

— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

... that Lee would still further lengthen out his long line from Richmond, and endanger his communications, by invading Pennsylvania; and he therefore waited for further developments. Lee, however, impelled by public opinion behind him, which it was hardly safe to brave, still went forward, and directed Ewell to cross the Potomac with his main body and Longstreet to fall back behind the Shenandoah to act in conjunction with Hill, who had relieved Ewell at Winchester on the 17th, against any attempt to strike ...

— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday

... man—but the king who desires that they should be done is a far greater. We must do justice to our enemies—these are the acts of a patriot king. I am not in dread of the vast armies of France; I am not in dread of the gallant spirit of its brave and numerous nobility; I am not alarmed even at the great navy which has been so miraculously created. All these things Louis the Fourteenth had before. With all these things, the French monarchy has more than once fallen ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... upon the imprudence of an attack. Folly they termed it—and not from any motives of fear: they were willing to risk all; and had I so ordered, would have charged with me, rifle in hand, into the very midst of the enemy's lines. I knew they would, every man of them. Even the voyageur—the least brave of the party— would not have flinched; for, in the midst of brave men, cowards ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... conviction with a weight still more irresistible. It has been seen how stirring an influence the revolutionary fever engendered by the overthrow of the French monarchy for a time exerted even over the calmer temper of Englishmen. In Ireland, where, ever since Sarsfield and his brave garrison enlisted under the banner of Louis XIV., a connection more or less intimate with France had been constantly kept up, the events in Paris had produced a far deeper and wider effect. More than one demagogue among the Volunteers ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

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