Noun

(en noun)

conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something

A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)

* 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:

Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.

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, year=1879 , author= , title= , passage=Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon.}}

(legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

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.