Word of the Day:
boldness
What It Means
The state of being bold; courage.
The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
Boldness in Context
“Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]”
Did You Know?
From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold + -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).
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