hardihood

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness. countable,uncountable
    — […] 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 […]
  2. Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance. countable,uncountable
    — […] 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:
  3. Of a plant, an ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness. countable,uncountable
    — 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” […]

词形变化

hardihoods plural hardihead alternative

词源

From hardy + -hood. Compare Dutch hardigheid (“hardness, callousness”), German Hartigkeit (“hardness”).
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