courage
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From Old French corage (French: courage), from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
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courage (uncountable)
- The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —Mark Twain
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
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- See also Wikisaurus:courage
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quality of a confident character
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ability to do frightening things
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courage (third-person singular simple present courages, present participle couraging, simple past and past participle couraged)
- (obsolete) To encourage. [15th-17th c.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIX:
- ‘I woll corrayge othir men of worshyp to do as I woll do.’
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIX:
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cœur + -age or Old French corage, from a Latin root *coraticum, from cor.
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courage m. (plural courages)
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