Gallant vs Courage - What's the difference?
gallant | courage |
Brave, valiant.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Honorable.
*
Grand, noble.
(lb) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 140-143
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) topgallant
(obsolete) To attend or wait on (a lady).
(obsolete) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
(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.
As nouns the difference between gallant and courage
is that gallant is (dated) fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women while courage is courage.As an adjective gallant
is brave, valiant or gallant can be polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.As a verb gallant
is (obsolete|transitive) to attend or wait on (a lady).gallant
English
Alternative forms
* gallaunt (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The town is built in a very gallant place.
- our royal, good and gallant ship
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- PROSPERO: [...] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd /with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person [...]
- The ignominy of that whisper’d tale
- About a midnight gallant , seen to climb
- A window to her chamber neighbour’d near,
- I will from her turn off,
- Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey .
Verb
(en verb)- to gallant ladies to the play
- to gallant a fan
References
* English heteronyms ----courage
English
Noun
(-)- "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.
- "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.
