英和和英

名詞

stout-heartedness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of stoutheartedness
   • 2014, Jay A. Stout, Fighter Group: The 352nd "Blue-Nosed Bastards" in World War II, ISBN 0811748677, page 74:

     But I also know, because you have shown me, that yours is the courage and stout-heartedness that can meet any demands cheerfully and willingly, without hope of reward other than that which comes with a job well done...

   • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:

     Care in listening, and stout-heartedness in holding to good counsel, is a wife's great protection.

語源

stouthearted +‎ -ness

名詞

stoutheartedness (uncountable)

1. Courage, pluck, boldness.
   • 1979, Finley Hooper, Roman Realities, ISBN 0814315941, page 37:

     Horatius, on duty when the enemy attacked, displayed a stoutheartedness unmatched by his companions. He kept them from running away by promising to hold off the enemy while they destroyed the bridge behind him.

2. Resoluteness, fortitude, dauntlessness.
   • 2012, Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road, ISBN 1609530853:

     In a vacant gesture the foreman began making rounds during breakfast, glad-handing the men as they sulked over their porridge and coffee, reminding them of their fortitude and stoutheartedness.

   • 1870, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, The book of nature and the book of man, page 88:

     The oak (Quercus pedunculata かつ Q. sessiliflord) our national tree is an emblem of British stoutheartedness and of the British constitution ; which like the tree has continued longer than most of its fellows.