boldness

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Boldness

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EtymologyEdit

bold +‎ -ness

NounEdit

boldness (usually uncountable, plural boldnesses)

1. The state of being bold; courage.
   • Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill

     Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]

2. presumptuousness
3. (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:courage

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