fortitudinous

English

Adjective

fortitudinous (comparative more fortitudinous, superlative most fortitudinous)

Having fortitude; courageous.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‎:
  these fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fortitudinous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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