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valour or US valor Noun Literary great bravery, esp. in battle [Latin valere to be strong] valorous adj
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valour U.S. valor noun bravery, courage, heroism, spirit, boldness, gallantry, derring-do (archaic) fearlessness, intrepidity, doughtiness, lion-heartedness << OPPOSITE cowardice Translations n valour [ˈvӕlə] courage or bravery, especially in battle He displayed his valour on the battlefield. moed شَجاعَه доблест udatnost mod; tapperhed die Tapferkeit γενναιότητα, πολεμική αρετή valor, valentía mehisus رشادت urhoollisuus bravoure אוֹמֵץ לֵב वीरता odvažnost, hrabrost bátorság keberanian hugrekki valore; coraggio 勇気 용기, 용맹 narsa drosme; bezbailība berani moed mot, tapperhet męstwo coragem curaj доблесть udatnosť, chrabrosť hrabrost junaštvo tapperhet กล้า cesaret, yiğitlik 英勇 доблесть شجاعت، بہادري sự dũng cảm 英勇 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There is a type of manly valour; but valour in a woman, or unscrupulous cleverness, is inappropriate. At first nothing was able to stand before the valour of the Portuguese, the Moors were driven from one mountain to another, and were dislodged even from those places, which it seemed almost impossible to approach, even unmolested by the opposition of an enemy. Fragment #3 -- Scholiast on Aristophanes, Knights 1056 and Aristophanes ib: The story runs as follows: Aias and Odysseus were quarrelling as to their achievements, says the poet of the "Little Iliad", and Nestor advised the Hellenes to send some of their number to go to the foot of the walls and overhear what was said about the valour of the heroes named above. |
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