Chapter Hardener to Harlequinade of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Hardihood
(Har"di*hood) n. [Hardy + -hood.] Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.

A bound of graceful hardihood.

Wordsworth.

It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity.

Buckminster.

Syn. — Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity; effrontery; impudence.

Hardily
(Har"di*ly), adv.

1. Same as Hardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. Wyclif.

Hardiment
(Har"di*ment) n. [OF. hardement. See Hardy.] Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.]

Changing hardiment with great Glendower.

Shak.

Hardiness
(Har"di*ness) n.

1. Capability of endurance.

2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser.

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother.

Shak.

They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.

Clarendon.

3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hardish
(Hard"ish) a. Somewhat hard.

Hard-labored
(Hard"-la`bored) a. Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.

Hardly
(Hard"ly) adv. [AS. heardlice. See Hard.]

1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty.

Recovering hardly what he lost before.

Dryden.

2. Unwillingly; grudgingly.

The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent.

Milton.

3. Scarcely; barely; not quite; not wholly.

Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.

South.

4. Severely; harshly; roughly.

He has in many things been hardly used.

Swift.

5. Confidently; hardily. [Obs.] Holland.

6. Certainly; surely; indeed. [Obs.] Chaucer.