COURAGE

Courage

Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement.

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courage

Noun

  1. The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
    "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —
    It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
  2. The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
    "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —
    He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.

Verb

  1. To encourage.
    Paul writeth unto Timothy to courage him. — Tyndale.


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