Crossword clues for braver
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brave \Brave\, a. [Compar. Braver; superl. Bravest.] [F. brave, It. or Sp. bravo, (orig.) fierce, wild, savage, prob. from. L. barbarus. See Barbarous, and cf. Bravo.]
Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
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Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous. [Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.]
Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
--Bacon.It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
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Making a fine show or display. [Archaic]
Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
--Shak.For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
--Robert Greene.Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots.
--Emerson.Syn: Courageous; gallant; daring; valiant; valorous; bold; heroic; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; magnanimous; high-spirited; stout-hearted. See Gallant.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: brave)
Wikipedia
Braver is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Braver (born 1963), American author
- Gary Braver, pen name of Gary Goshgarian, science fiction and thriller author
- Rita Lynn Braver (born 1948), correspondent for CBS News
Usage examples of "braver".
While he has produced an unabashedly commercial page-turner, Braver has also probed, in a profound and often disturbing fashion, some fundamental questions about the ever-expanding role of biotechnology in modern life.
A few more families had settled here by then, the ones that was braver than most.
Now all of those things seemed so trivial compared to the task she had before her, and these men, who were stronger and braver and more honest than any she had ever known, they were looking at her with that same doubt she had borne for all of her life.
Pullo and Vorenus took a bet that each was braver than the other, and demanded that the Ninth be the judges.
Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?
It required courage to set forth on that journey, but I was braver than I had ever been, and I understood the pressure of necessity.
But there were other, braver men in the throng, and rocks and filth pelted the soldiery.
The heights, where the rich lived, now twinkled with occasional lights as the braver nobility found the courage to return to their homes.
Tom would not hurt her by anything he would say, being a man, and braver, and motivated by some vaguely different drives, which had to do with pride and being strong, qualities which she had avoided afl her life.
His ships were wood, but no braver men ever walked the decks of a floating battery.
On the other hand, we ought to say words which will cheer and strengthen them, and make them braver for the fight.
In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man.
I mean the firemen of our great cities, than whom there are no steadier, braver, nobler-hearted men.
Yanagisawa said in the quiet, venomous tone that had subdued many a man braver than Lord Kii.
Several flinched away, clearly expecting another incendiary, or more hurricane winds, but one of the braver souls stepped forward and slapped at the bomb with his hand, trying to send it right back at its thrower.