Definition of Hardiness

Har´di`ness   Pronunciation: ~dĭ`nĕs
n.1.Capability of endurance.
2.Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
- Clarendon.
3.Hardship; fatigue.


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