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noun

Bravery n.

The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. "Remember, sir, my liege,... The natural bravery of your isle."

The act of braving; defiance; bravado. (Obs.) "Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons."

Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress. "With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery." "Like a stately ship... With all her bravery on, and tackle trim."

A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau. (Obs.) "A man that is the bravery of his age."

Synonyms: Courage; heroism; interpidity; gallantry; valor; fearlessness; dauntlessness; hardihood; manfulness. See Courage, and Heroism.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... moral bravery of our forefathers and the comparative greatness of England, at that ...

— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck

... were a manifest injury; a disgrace and a half: to refuse him at such a festival-time as this, being a bravery, and a ...

— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson

... wild beasts," and ordered it immediately to be taken away; because, if his troops should see it, their spirit might be broken by perceiving the endurance and determined resolution of the enemy. With what bravery they fought, one instance affords sufficient proof; which is, that after an unsuccessful engagement at Dyrrachium, they called for punishment; insomuch that their general found it more necessary to comfort than to punish them. In other ...

— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus

... possess more popular qualifications than any other, and that is General Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana. I do not know him, never met him, but he rose from the humblest beginnings until he became the leader of the bar of his State. He enlisted in the Civil War as a second lieutenant, and by conspicuous bravery and skill upon the battle-field came out as brigadier-general. As United States senator he became informed about federal affairs. His grandfather, President William H. Harrison, had one of the most picturesque campaigns in our history. There are ...

— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew

... this point threadbare, I will relate an anecdote the situation calls to my mind, which seems to be too strikingly in point to be omitted. A witty Irish soldier, who was always boasting of his bravery when no danger was near, but who invariably retreated without orders at the first charge of the engagement, being asked by his captain why he did so, replied, 'Captain, I have as brave a heart as Julius Caesar ever had, but somehow ...

— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

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