Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hardiness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hardiness \Har"di*ness\, n.
1. Capability of endurance.
2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. --Spenser.
Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of
hardiness is mother. --Shak.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of
avowing the contempt of the king. --Clarendon.
3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hardiness
n : the property of strong in constitution [syn: {robustness}, {lustiness}]
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