Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Valiant character; bravery; valor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being valiant; heroism, bravery or valour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)

Etymologies

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Compare French vaillance. See valiant.

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  • Really?! Im the first to list this one? O so cynical thesse days, are we...

    July 24, 2009

  • The captain’s brief health food dalliance

    Provoked the old sea cook’s galley rants.

    The oaths and the bitchin’

    Just poured from that kitchen.

    To enter there proved a tar’s valiance.

    December 26, 2017