valorous

Etymology

From Old French valeureux.

adj

  1. Having or displaying valour.
    c. 1490, William Caxton (translator), The Boke of Eneydos, Westminster, Preface, this present booke compyled by virgyle ryght subtyl and Ingenyous oratour & poete Intytuled Eneydos hath be translated oute of latyn in to comyn langage In whiche may alle valyaunt prynces and other nobles see many valorous fayttes of armes.
    He held up the glass. “To your valorous wounds. To the silver medal.” 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, New York: Scribner, Book I, Chapter 10, p. 70
    There are many valorous stories told of her, which enthral grown men as well as children. 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 139

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