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the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

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  1. n. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
  2. Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster. Syn. -- Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity; effrontery; impudence.
  3. Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery;intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.Buckminster.
  4. n the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger