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What does hardihood mean?

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Noun
  1. Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness.
  2. Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
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And when he rallied it was apparently in a spirit of the sheerest hardihood.
His explorations in the Antarctic Ocean showed a hardihood and determination seldom surpassed.
A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!
Few nations have ever existed, who have evinced more indomitable courage or hardihood, or shown more devotion to the spirit of independence than the Iroquois.
Similarly, this finding leaves open the possibility that female characters expressed heroism in ways not entailing physical hardihood or risk.
He was not only a very dexterous thief, but was notorious for his boldness and hardihood, and for the number of his previous convictions.

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