Noun

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backbone, determination and fortitude

initiative or skill

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, year=1971 , author=(John Updike) , title=(Rabbit Redux) , page=401 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ohnQr0ij3S8C&pg=PA401&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zfcUPbOEILrqAHV8YDIAQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA

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, passage=As a girl she had speed and a knock-kneed moxie at athletics, and might have done more with it if she hadn't harvested all the glory already. }}

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, date = 2011-01-29 , title = (Phineas and Ferb) , episode = : The Musical! , season = 2 , number = 38 , people = (Dan Povenmire) , role = Building Engineer , at = “Aren't You a Little Young?” (song) , passage = Yes it's true! / That you seem a little young to do the things that you do, / even with all that moxie you've got. }}

Noun

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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.