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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcorage, fromOld Frenchcorage (Frenchcourage), fromVulgar Latin*corāticum, fromLatincor(“heart”). Distantly related tocardiac(“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. DisplacedMiddle Englishelne,ellen, fromOld Englishellen(“courage, valor”).

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Noun

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courage (usuallyuncountable,pluralcourages)

  1. The quality of beingconfident, notafraid or easilyintimidated, but without beingincautious orinconsiderate.
    It takes a lot ofcourage to be successful in business.
  2. The ability toovercome one's fear,do orlive things which one findsfrightening.
    He plucked up thecourage to tell her how he felt.
  3. The ability tomaintain one'swill orintent despite either the experience offear,frailty, orfrustration; or the occurrence ofadversity,difficulty,defeat orreversal. Moral fortitude.
    • 1942,C.S. Lewis,The Screwtape Letters:
      “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtueat the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
    • 1960 July 11,Harper Lee,To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.:J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company,→OCLC:
      I wanted you to see what realcourage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
    • 1993, Stanley P. Cornils,The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely:
      Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
    • 2008,Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement
      Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtueconsistently.
    • 2008, Eric Roth,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay:
      I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have thecourage to start all over again.

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Translations

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quality of a confident character
ability to do frightening things
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Verb

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courage (third-person singular simple presentcourages,present participlecouraging,simple past and past participlecouraged)

  1. (obsolete) Toencourage.[15th–17th c.]
    • 1485,Sir Thomas Malory, chapterX, inLe Morte Darthur, book XIX:
      And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I willecourage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
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    • 1530,William Tyndale,An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue:
      Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, tocourage him, to stir him up,

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchcorage, fromOld Frenchcorage, fromVulgar Latin*corāticum, fromLatincor.

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Noun

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courage m (pluralcourages)

  1. courage
    Synonym:bravoure
    Lecourage est à mi-chemin entre la lâcheté et la témérité.[1] ―Courage is the median between cowardice and foolhardiness.

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Interjection

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courage !

  1. chin up!keep going!take heart!

Usage notes

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"bon courage !" has a slightly different meaning: "good luck!".

References

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  1. ^Tatoeba No. 11942121

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