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Courage vs Couraged - What's the difference?

courage | couraged |

As a noun courage

is courage.

As an adjective couraged is

having a specified form or amount of courage.

courage

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
    • "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —
    It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
  • The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
    • "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —
    He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * courageous * discourage * encourage

    Related terms

    * cardiac

    Verb

    (courag)
  • (label) To encourage.
  • *:
  • *:And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
  • *(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
  • *:Paul writeth unto Timothyto courage him.

    • See also

    * fearlessness * bield English abstract nouns ----

    couraged

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a specified form or amount of courage.
  • * 1859 , William Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    • She's the highest-couraged thing we've got in the stables. Her name's Brown Molly, sir; and she'll go till she drops.
  • * 1925 , Andrew Herbert Dakers, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
    • the wordy warfare of lukewarm, weak-couraged men