different between bravado vs bravery

English

Alternative forms

• bravade (obsolete)

Etymology

From French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), from Italian bravata, from verb bravare (“brag, boast”), from bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????v??do?/, /br??v??do?/
• Rhymes: -??d??

Noun

bravado (countable and uncountable, plural bravados or bravadoes)

1. A swaggering show of defiance or courage.
   • 1990 Amy Longsdorf, K.T. Oslin: Personality, Wit and Style To Spare", The Morning Call[1]

     Songs like "Hey Bobby", and "Do Ya" drip with innuendo and sexual bravado.

   • Rosa Mulholland, The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly

     For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by?and?by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.

2. A false show of courage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A swaggerer; a braggart.

Translations

Verb

bravado (third-person singular simple present bravados, present participle bravadoing, simple past and past participle bravadoed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swagger; to brag.

English

Etymology

French braverie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?e?v.?.?i/, /?b?e?v.?i/

Noun

bravery (usually uncountable, plural braveries)

1. (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
2. (countable) A brave act.
3. Splendor, magnificence
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:

     Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,

     And make me travel forth without my cloak,

     To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,

     Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

   • In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon

Synonyms

• (being brave): bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage

Related terms

• bravado
• brave
• bravure

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