fortitudinous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fortitude + -in- + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]fortitudinous (comparative more fortitudinous, superlative most fortitudinous)
- Having fortitude; courageous.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire[1]:
- these fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers
- 1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, Amelia, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC:
- as brave and fortitudinous a man as any in the king's dominions
References
[edit]- “fortitudinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.