Talk:grit

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At grit it says "Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude [- quotations: ...] (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Reade to this entry?)". I can't find any that mean "Grit=the power of passion and perseverance for a long term goal" - https://www.google.com/#q=intitle%3A%22The+Complete+Writings+of+Charles+Reade%22+%22grit%22&tbm=bks

Why was this talk page deleted? - https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Talk%3Agrit --NoToleranceForIntolerance (talk) 16:56, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Clean 'Grit'?

Can someone help me understand this (ping me if you respond)? This could be a citation for 'grit' if I could figure out which definition it goes under. The character Mr. Morris is speaking in a strange register that I don't comprehend. It seems like he's saying 'pure of heart' or something.

• 1897, Bram Stoker, quoting Mr. Morris, Dracula‎^[1], page 55:

  Lucy, you are an honest-hearted girl, I know. I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit, right through to the very depths of your soul. Tell me, like one good fellow to another, is there any one else that you care for?

  --Geographyinitiative (talk) 17:40, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative:

• 'That young woman,' he told himself, 'is clean grit, and clean grit all through. She comes to bamboozle me, poor thing! but she does it for her father's sake, and I respect the motive ...' 1898, A Race for Millions by David Christie Murray google books link
• give us good oldfashioned Holy Ghost lungs, and make us all clean grit unto godliness! 1841 The Playfair Papers, Or Brother Jonathan, The Smartest Nation in All Creation, by Hugo Playfair google books
• "They wa'n't never no man ez had more clean grit than Joe Duckflapper. ..." 1883? Pike County Folks by Edward Harold Mott google books
• "Ye're clean grit! If ye'er my sister, I'm proud of ye. ..." 1885 Dangerous Ground: Or, The Rival Detectives, by Lawrence L. Lynch google books

I found these via google books. --Frigoris (talk) 18:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: It is this sense of grit: "Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude." If you are "clean grit", then you have a lot of this quality. Compare phrases like "pure idiocy". Equinox ◑ 19:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Possibly related to the washed sand as a simile for cleanness, characterised by the lack of what obscures, pollutes, or makes impure. Except for the 3rd citation above, which refers to "pure" level of "grit" as in audacity (the character referred to seemed to have shot someone in the passage that follows). --Frigoris (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Picture

Am I right in saying that the photograph shows a pile of grit on top of a gritstone, thus covering two senses of the word? N4m3 (talk) 12:31, 14 July 2022 (UTC)