bravery

bravery
n
1. courage, valor, valorousness, valiancy, valiance, heroism, prowess, stout-heartedness, lionheartedness or lion-heartedness, ironheartedness or iron-heartedness, great-heartedness or greatheartedness, high-heartedness; virility, manliness, manfulness, manhood, gallantry, chivalry, chivalrousness; intrepidity, intrepidness, fearlessness, dauntlessness, awe-lessness, dreadlessness; boldness, bold-spiritedness, high-spiritedness, daring, derring-do, audacity, audaciousness, rashness; dash, elan, panache, (usu. negative) bravado; assurance, self-assurance, self-reliance, confidence, pot-valor, pot-valiancy, pot-valiance.
2. fortitude, endurance, tenacity, determination, will, will-power; firmness, resoluteness, resolution, indomitableness, indomitability, invincibleness, invincibility, staunchness, stanchness, steadfastness, stalwartness, doughtiness, sturdiness, hardiness, hardihood, bulldog courage; mettle, pluck, pluckiness, spirit, backbone, gumption, blood, heart, nerve, grit, U.S. Inf. sand, Inf. starch, Inf. spunk, Sl. guts, Sl. moxie.
3. showiness, gaudiness, tawdriness, flamboyance, flashiness, frilliness, Sl. jazziness; gaiety, gaudery, trumpery, finery, frippery, frillery, superfluity, Sl. flash or flashery.
4. splendor, splendidness, splendiferousness, magnificence, grandeur, grandness, grandiosity, brilliance, gloriousness; elegance, luxuriousness, lavishness, sumptuousness, Inf. swankness or swankiness, Inf. poshness, Inf. plushness, Inf. ritziness.

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