different between hardihood vs perseverance
hardihood
English
Etymology
From hardy +? -hood. Compare Dutch hardigheid (“hardness, callousness”), German Hartigkeit (“hardness”).
Noun
hardihood (countable and uncountable, plural hardihoods)
- Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness.
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 4, p. 81,[1]
- […] he came to impart other news; to prepare the Earl for death; for the morrow was appointed for his execution. He received the intelligence with the firm hardihood of indignant virtue, disdaining to solicit, and disdaining to repine […]
- 1971 John M. Dorsey, Psychology of Emotion, Detroit: Center for Health Education, “My Theory of Emotion,” p. 108,[2]
- Once endured it is enjoyed as my owndom. Elsewhere I refer to this process of enduring hardship as the only possible source of hardihood.
- 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, London: T. Hookham, Chapter 4, p. 81,[1]
- Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
- 1643, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, London, p. 25,[3]
- […] that God should enact a dispensation for hard hearts to do that wherby they must live in priviledg’d adultery, however it go for the receav’d opinion, I shall ever disswade my self from so much hardihood as to beleeve:
- 1798, Hannah Brand, Adelinda in Plays and Poems, Norwich, Act I, Scene 1, p. 358,[4]
- I have not the hardihood to dare to be vilely dishonest.
- 1896, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Chapter 9,[5]
- I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.
- 1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book 1, Chapter 7, p. 84,[6]
- I had not the arrogance—or the hardihood—to test my power again, but I put on hope, as a naked man welcomes rags in a winter storm.
- 1643, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, London, p. 25,[3]
- (of a plant) Ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: George Woodfall & Son, Volume 1, p. 144,[7]
- The cheapness and hardihood of the musk-plant and marigold, to say nothing of their peculiar odour, has made them the most popular of “roots” […]
- 1957, Sylvia Plath, “Mayflower” in Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, 1981, p. 60,
- Now, as green sap ascends the steepled wood,
- Each hedge with such white bloom astounds our eyes
- As sprang from Joseph’s rod, and testifies
- How best beauty’s born of hardihood.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: George Woodfall & Son, Volume 1, p. 144,[7]
Related terms
- hardihead
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perseverance
English
Alternative forms
- perseveraunce (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French perseverance, from Latin perseverantia
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??s??v????ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?s??v???ns/
- Rhymes: -????ns
- Hyphenation: per?se?ve?rance
Noun
perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)
- Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Related terms
- persevere
- perseverance of the saints
- perseverant
Translations
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French perseverance
Noun
perseverance f (uncountable)
- perseverance
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