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Capability of endurance.

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  1. n. Capability of endurance.
  2. n. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
  3. n. Hardship; fatigue.
  4. n. the property of being strong and healthy in constitution
  5. n. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
  6. 1. Capability of endurance. 2. 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. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.
  7. n:100 n the property of being strong and healthy in constitution n the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger