Hardiness
Pronunciation : Har"di*ness
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. Capability of endurance.
2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.
3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913