hardiment

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UK/ˈhɑːdɪmənt/

noun

Bravery, courage.

OriginOld French hardiment →
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Meanings

nounhardiment (countable and uncountable, plural hardiments)

plural hardiments

  1. archaiccountableuncountableBravery, courage.

    But full of fire and greedy hardiment, / The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchhardi
  2. Old Frenchhardiment
  3. Englishhardiment

From Old French hardiment, from Old French hardi.

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