Definition of "hardihood" []

• Boldness and daring. (noun)
• Impudence or insolence. (noun)

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• "When we consider that he was even then courting Angelina, his hardihood is a little surprising."
• "He delighted in every kind of hardihood; and, in his contempt for effeminacy, once said to his mother:"
• "The big tree, with all the seeming of hardihood, promising to stand for centuries to come, had suffered from a hidden decay."