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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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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.
What do you think, sir, they have had the hardihood to say in the House of Commons?
Jack's hardihood is extraordinary – clearly, he doesn't need sleep the way the rest of us do.
If he have the hardihood let him light his yule log in the winter twilight of the snowy woods.
A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!

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