valiantise
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English
Alternative forms
- valyantise (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English vaillauntise, from Old French vaillantise, formed from vaillant (“valiant, brave”) + -ise (“denoting a state or quality”).[1][2]
Noun
valiantise (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality of being valiant; bravery, heroism.
- Synonyms: valiance, valour, valiantness
- 1598, [Joseph Hall], “Sat. 4. Plus beau que fort.”, in Virgidemiarum. , London: Richard Bradocke for Robert Dexter , Lib. 4, page 31:
- If brabling Make-Fray, at ech Fayre and Siſe, / Picks quarrels for to ſhow his valiantiſe, […]
- 1884, John Payne, “The Romaunt of Sir Floris”, in The Masque of Shadows And Other Poems, new edition, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 148:
- A good knight and a valorous, / And in all courtesies approved, / That unto valiantise behoved.
References
- ^ “vaillauntise, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “valiantise, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
