couragious
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]couragious (comparative more couragious, superlative most couragious)
- Obsolete spelling of courageous.
- 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The Voyage of Oliver Noort round about the Globe, beeing the fourth Circum-Nauigation of the same, extracted out of the Latine Diarie”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 77, lines 33–35:
- They haue many wiues, thoſe wittie, warie in trading, bold and couragious: one of them rudelier handled by a Hollander, with a Iauelin had diſpatched him, if her force had not beene intercepted.