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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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Etymology of 'Hardiness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hardiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked at her with burning eyes. He was astonished, almost terrified by his hardiness; and what he detected of its effect on her threw him into an indescribable state ...

— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell

... of this permission to rebel, and it has given Me an internal hardiness in all similar assaults, that has at least relieved my mind from the terror of giving mortal offence where most I owe implicit obedience, should provocation overpower my capacity of ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay

... in the first instance, to be thanked for these ornaments to our language, it is impossible to deny. Nor would it be common hardiness to contend, that worldly discontent had no hand in these joint productions of poetry and piety. Yet am I by no means sure that, at any rate, we should not have had something of the same colour from Young's pencil, notwithstanding the liveliness ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson

... my vase may join them," said the prince. "But here is the cavalier of Germany, and by my soul! he looks like a man of great valor and hardiness. Let them run their full three courses, for the issue is over-great to hang ...

— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle

... peaches, cherries, grapes, in short, all kinds of fruit which grow in our latitude and many even that have been introduced. He has developed hundreds of varieties of flowers, improving them in color, hardiness and yield. Thus he has not only added to the food and manufacturing products of the world, but he has enriched the aesthetic side in ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

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