Vigour vs Daring - What's the difference?
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Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
* (rfdate) :
(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks.
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Boldness
Vigour is a related term of daring.
As nouns the difference between vigour and daring
is that vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy while daring is boldness.As a verb daring is
.As an adjective daring is
adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks.vigour
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Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
Usage notes
Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.Derived terms
* envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigourdaring
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Verb
(head)Adjective
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