Syn. — Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity; effrontery; impudence.
HARDILY
Har"di*ly, adv.
1. Same as Hardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. Wyclif.
HARDIMENT
Har"di*ment, n. Etym: [OF. hardement. See Hardy.]
Defn: Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.]
Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.
HARDINESS
Har"di*ness, n.
1. Capability of endurance.
2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.
3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.