Synonyms:
fortitude
Meaning: strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
Usage examples
He accepted the situation with the fortitude of a fatalist.
"Captain, give over, a brave man must show fortitude," muttered Kolya.
Nor could he help but admire her fortitude and the uncomplaining effort she was making to push on.
The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.
The flag which you have upheld so long and with so much fortitude, under the most trying circumstances, may be saluted by you on taking it down.
He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much.
The food he ate was minimum in quantity; sensation ceased, and the dry, hot winds reduced bodily tissue to a dessicated something called a saint--loved, feared and reverenced for his fortitude.
Let not self-love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification . . . Shall I expose myself and my family to danger at this time?
There was tea and coffee in abundance, jars of jam filled the kitchen shelves, and if this morning she laid in a moderate supply of dried fruits, there was no reason to face the future with anything but fortitude.
This greatly discouraged the Romans, who in their own opinions were already gotten within the walls, while they were now at once astonished at Josephus's contrivance, and at the fortitude of the citizens that were in the city.