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hardinesses

hardinesses is the plural of hardiness.

Meaning of hardiness

Noun

hardiness (countable and uncountable, plural hardinesses)

  1. The quality of being able to withstand fatigue and hardship; (of a plant) the quality of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
    • Kale is known for its winter-hardiness.
  2. (obsolete) The quality of being bold in the face of risk or authority.
    • Plentie, and Peace breeds Cowards: Hardneſſe euer / Of Hardineſſe is Mother.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  3. (obsolete) Hardship; fatigue.
    • Yet ſure they are very valiant, and hardy, for the moſt part great Indurers of Cold, Labour, Hunger, and all Hardineſs […]1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as “A View of the State of Ireland”, in...

Questions about hardinesses

What is hardinesses the plural of?
Hardinesses is the plural of hardiness.

Words near hardinesses in the dictionary

  1. hardiments
  2. hardims
  3. Hardin
  4. Hardin County
  5. hardiness
  6. hardinesses
  7. Harding
  8. Harding County
  9. Harding grass
  10. harding up
  11. Hardinge

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