intrepidity

Etymology

From intrepid + -ity.

noun

  1. The quality of being intrepid; bravery.
    [T]here are common and covert ones [dangers], that "look like nothing" and that can be but inwardly and occultly dealt with, which involve the sharpest hazards to life and honour and the highest instant decisions and intrepidities of action. 1907, Henry James, “Preface”, in The American (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; II), New York edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page xvii

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