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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Heart; mind; thought; feeling; inclination; desire.
  2. n. State or frame of mind; disposition; condition.
  3. n. That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear or depression of spirits; valor; boldness; bravery; spirit; daring; resolution: formerly occasionally used in the plural.
  4. To animate; encourage; cheer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
  2. n. The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
  3. v. To encourage. [15th-17th c.]

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
  2. n. Heart; inclination; desire; will.
  3. n. That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
  4. v. To inspire with courage; to encourage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear

Etymologies

  1. Middle English corage, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.

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