Noun

(-)

Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calumnity; intrepidness.

* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness :

Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood , greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world.

* 1971 , John Morris Dorsey, Psychology of Emotion :

Once endured it is enjoyed as my owndom. Elsewhere I refer to this process of enduring hardship as the only possible source of hardihood .

Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.

Noun

(es)

The state of being manful

*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He will at least have the manfulness to depart out of it, if not; to say: "I cannot move in thee, and be a man; like a wretched drift-log dressed in man's clothes and minister's clothes, doomed to a lot baser than belongs to man, I will not continue with thee, tumbling aimless on the Mother of Dead Dogs here:--Adieu!" }}

*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westminster Sermons, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness , of power. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=The Life of Friedrich Schiller, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Nor were these sentiments, be it remembered, the mere boasting manifesto of a hot-brained inexperienced youth, entering on literature with feelings of heroic ardour, which its difficulties and temptations would soon deaden or pervert: they are the calm principles of a man, expressed with honest manfulness , at a period when the world could compare them with a long course of conduct. }}