lionheartedness
See also: lion-heartedness
English
editEtymology
editFrom lionhearted + -ness.
Noun
editlionheartedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being lionhearted; courage and magnanimity.
- 2010, Louis De Bernières, Notwithstanding, →ISBN, page 82:
- In the village itself his lionheartedness had been a legend ever since he had brained a burglar with a number seven iron, and the jury in Guildford had, despite the clear direction of the judge, resolutely declined to convict him for the use of unnecessary force.