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Resolute courageousness
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intrepidity
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Wikipedia
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Interpidity (foaled 19 February 1990) was a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which lasted from April 1993 to November 1994 the filly ran twelve times and won four races. Unraced as a two-year-old, Intrepidity proved ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, from intrepid + -ity .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. resolute courageousness [syn: dauntlessness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intrepidity \In`tre*pid"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. intr['e]pidit['e].] The quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor. Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being intrepid; bravery.
Usage examples of intrepidity.
The husband was duly warned, but, with a great show of intrepidity, he answered with a joke every time he was told that I was a formidable rival.
The effectiveness of the rocket attack against the Danish flagship Christiania was due more to the intrepidity of Captain Richter in the attack, than to the inherent suitability of the weapon.
We talked of a certain clergyman of extraordinary character, who by exerting his talents in writing on temporary topicks, and displaying uncommon intrepidity, had raised himself to affluence.
The Prince de Waldeck has also paid the penalty of his intrepidity with the loss of one arm.
He debated with himself, whether he should make a parade of his intrepidity and public spirit, by disclosing his achievement, and surrendering his guide to the penalty of the law.
Reduced, in this extremity, to the resources of his own mind, he displayed a prudent intrepidity, which compensated for all the deficiencies of the place and garrison.
Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and silver, precious stones, coins.