Meaning of fortitude | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
   countable, uncountable
2. Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity
3. Physical strength.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
4. Physical strength

Equivalents

Examples

“I am able now (me thinkes) / (Out of a Fortitude of Soule, I feele) / To endure more Miſeries, […]”

“I shall soon have⟳ need⟳ for all my fortitude, as I am on the point⟳ of separation from my own⟳ daughter.”

“She [the ship] may be saved by your efforts, by your resource and fortitude bearing up against the heavy weight of guilt and failure.”

“Mitt Romney […] charges that [Barack] Obama is an appeaser who apologizes for America, lacks fortitude and is "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."”

“The proper fans might also expend time—about twenty hours—trying to visit⟳ every Tube station as quickly as possible. […] But to visit⟳ every station in record⟳ time—which people have⟳ been attempting since at least 1960—requires real fortitude. You must get⟳ up before dawn, you must drink⟳ or eat⟳ almost nothing, so niggardly is the Underground with toilet provision.”

“The Turke with moſt mighty preparation makes for Cipres. Othello, the fortitude of the place⟳, is beſt knowne to you, […]”

“Hey day! VVhat are all the VVomen of my Family abroad? Is not my Wife come⟳ home? Nor my Siſter, nor my Daughter? […] Mercy on us, what can be the meaning of it? Sure the Moon is in all her Fortitudes; […]”

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