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courage
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As a noun, courage means the quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
Meanings of courage
5 meaningsnoun
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
“It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.”
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
“He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.”
The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
Similar: courageousness, bravery, braveness
verb
obsoleteTo encourage.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).