hardiment
See also: hardîment
English
Etymology
From Old French hardiment, from hardi.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdɪmənt/
Noun
hardiment (countable and uncountable, plural hardiments)
- (archaic) Bravery, courage.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But full of fire and greedy hardiment, / The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide […]
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Further reading
- “hardiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Noun
hardiment oblique singular, m (oblique plural hardimenz or hardimentz, nominative singular hardimenz or hardimentz, nominative plural hardiment)
- bravery; courage
- c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- La paor entroublierent
et lor hardiment recovrerent.- they forgot their fear,
and rediscovered their courage.
- they forgot their fear,
Descendants
- English: hardiment
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