bravery
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French braverie, from braver (“to brave”), or Italian braveria, from bravare (“to brave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bravery (usually uncountable, plural braveries)
- (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
- (countable) A brave act.
- Splendor, magnificence.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. , London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 3:18:
- In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon
Synonyms
- (being brave): bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage
Related terms
Translations
being brave
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brave act
References
- ^ “bravery, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
