Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having fortitude; capable of endurance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having fortitude; courageous.
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- adjective Having
fortitude ;courageous .
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Examples
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In all fortitudinous ajaxious rowdinoisy tenuacity.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Yet these dexterous artists must view, with hopeless emulation, the hexagons and pyramids of the cells of a beehive: these fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers; and in their amorous enjoyments they are much inferior to the vigor of the grossest and most sordid quadrupeds.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Yet these dexterous artists must view, with hopeless emulation, the hexagons and pyramids of the cells of a beehive: [52] these fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers; and in their amorous enjoyments they are much inferior to the vigor of the grossest and most sordid quadrupeds.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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He rose immediately, and, having heartily embraced Booth, presented him to his friend, saying, he had the honour to introduce to him as brave and as _fortitudinous_
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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He rose immediately, and, having heartily embraced Booth, presented him to his friend, saying, he had the honour to introduce to him as brave and as _fortitudinous_
Amelia — Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730
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a high spirit, duty done, and right service performed in fortitudinous temper -- here was, not indeed a way out, but a way of erect living within.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880
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