fortitudinous
English
editEtymology
editFrom fortitude + -in- + -ous.
Adjective
editfortitudinous (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, volumes (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.