courages

Noun

courage (usually uncountable, plural courages)

1. (usually) The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
   • A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.1860, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay IV. Culture.”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 120
2. (usually) The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
   • He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
3. (usually) The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal; moral fortitude.
   • “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”1942, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

See all 4 meanings of courage