hardiment

See also: hardîment

English

Etymology

From Old French hardiment, from hardi.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdɪmənt/

Noun

hardiment (countable and uncountable, plural hardiments)

  1. (archaic) Bravery, courage.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
      But full of fire and greedy hardiment, / The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide […]

Anagrams

French

Etymology

hardi +‎ -ment

Adverb

hardiment

  1. boldly; daringly

Further reading

Old French

Noun

hardiment m (oblique plural hardimenz or hardimentz, nominative singular hardimenz or hardimentz, nominative plural hardiment)

  1. bravery; courage
    • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
      La paor entroublierent
      et lor hardiment recovrerent.
      they forgot their fear,
      and rediscovered their courage.

Descendants

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