hardiment

See also: hardîment

English

Etymology

From Old French hardiment, from hardi.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdɪmənt/

Noun

hardiment (countable and uncountable, plural hardiments)

1. (archaic) Bravery, courage.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But full of fire and greedy hardiment, / The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide […]

Anagrams

• Meinhardt

French

Etymology

From hardi +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

hardiment

1. boldly; daringly

Further reading

• “hardiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Noun

hardiment oblique singular, m (oblique plural hardimenz or hardimentz, nominative singular hardimenz or hardimentz, nominative plural hardiment)

1. bravery; courage
   • c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     La paor entroublierent
     et lor hardiment recovrerent.

     they forgot their fear,
     and rediscovered their courage.

Descendants

• English: hardiment