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English
Etymology
From Old French valeureux.
Adjective
valorous (comparative more valorous, superlative most valorous)
- Having or displaying valour.
- c. 1490, William Caxton (translator), The Boke of Eneydos, Westminster, Preface,
- this present booke compyled by virgyle ryght subtyl and Ingenyous oratour & poete Intytuled Eneydos hath be translated oute of latyn in to comyn langage In whiche may alle valyaunt prynces and other nobles see many valorous fayttes of armes.
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:[…] I shall be at York—at the head of my daring and valorous fellows, as ready to support any bold design as thy policy can be to form one.
2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 139:There are many valorous stories told of her, which enthral grown men as well as children.
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