bravery
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbɹeɪvəɹi/, /ˈbɹeɪvɹi/
bravery (uncountable)
- (usually, uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
- (countable) A brave act.
- Splendor, magnificence
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
- And make me travel forth without my cloak,
- To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
- Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Isaiah 3:18 ↗:
- In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:
- (being brave) bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage
- French: courage
- German: Tapferkeit
- Portuguese: bravura, braveza
- Russian: хра́брость
- Spanish: valor
- Russian: сме́лый посту́пок
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