HARDINESS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Capability of endurance.

2.
n.

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.
n.

Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.

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