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.