strongheartedness

See also: strong-heartedness

English

Alternative forms

• strong-heartedness

Etymology

From Middle English stronghartydnes, equivalent to stronghearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

strongheartedness (uncountable)

1. Resilience, endurance.
   • 1987, Loretta Fowler, Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings: Gros Ventre Culture and History, 1778-1984, →ISBN, page 52:

     As Cooper pointed out, among the foremost of the nineteenth-century Gros Ventre character ideals were "strongheartedness" and the ability to "bear and forgo."

2. Courage, bravery.
   • 2002, Michael Barton, Larry M. Logue, The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader, →ISBN, page 302:

     And desertion was noticeably worse among soldiers of lower classes than it was among those of moderate and superior means. But there were, of course, innumerable instances of strongheartedness among the humblest of Rebs.