Synonyms:
boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood
Meaning: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart"
Usage examples
Then his boldness returned.
Great boldness in facing danger; great prudence in the midst of it.
The doctor had not realized before the boldness and liveliness of his companion's mind.
He was almost certain that the little dressmaker loved him, and the thought gave him boldness.
There was a mixture of boldness, satire, and simplicity in the manner in which Miss Vernon pronounced these words.
He entered on it with the boldness of a practised mountaineer; yet he thought he had never traversed so strange or so dangerous a glacier in his life.
As full of keen satire and invective in his eloquence, as of tenderness and panegyric in his poetry, he caught the attention of his hearers, and exerted the utmost boldness in blaming those violent counsels by which the commons were governed.
The sudden appearance of so many persons, and the boldness of the minister in taking this decided step, made such an impression on the mind of the Czar as to divert his mind for the moment from his grief, and he allowed himself to be led forth and to be persuaded to take some food.
He had discovered that beneath their articles of dress their weapons were very carefully concealed; and from this circumstance it became quite clearly apparent the Indians intended to massacre the entire party. Here Carson's boldness proved, as it had before, and did many a time afterwards, the safety of himself and friends or associates.