Definition of "braving" []

• Present participle of brave. (verb)
• A bravado; a boast. (noun)

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• "Never were tragedy and triumph so intimately joined, as if Elaine’s pride in braving the worn and slippery stairs had been punished by the unseen forces that had sustained this unbalanced mass of masonry for so many centuries … …"
• "I come every year but this year seeing nearly 100,000 people from every country you can name braving the hottest Memphis Summer in 25 years was incredible."
• "She's actually a displaced unhappy princess 'braving' the north."