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valiancy|ˈvæljənsɪ|
Forms: 6 val(l)iauncie, 6–7 (9) valiancie (7 vall-), 7 valiansie, 7– valiancy (7 valiantcy), 6–7 valiencie.
[Cf. prec. and -ancy.]
1. The quality or attribute of being valiant or courageous; bravery, valiantness, valour.
Freq. from c 1575 to c 1600.
1574J. Jones Beg. Growing & Living Things 32 Feeblenesse of spirit, want of strength, and lacke of valiauncie. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 23 More to the effect of our Archers, than to anie extraordinarie valiancie of our Nation. 16051st Pt. Jeronimo ii. i, That which they lost by base Captiuitie, We may redeeme with honored valiansie. 1654E. Johnson Wonder-wrkg. Provid. 30 Yet was he not minded to make triall of his peoples valiantcy in fight at this time. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iii. v. 45 Those prizes and Crownes they had gained by their Valiancy in war.
1795Southey Joan of Arc vi. 392 Though Talbot with vain valiancy Yet urged the war, and stemm'd alone the tide Of battle. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate ii, Cincinnatus and the like, who fought not the common enemy with the less valiancy that their arms had been exercised in halding the stilts of the pleugh. 1850T. H. Gill Golden Chain of Praise (1894) cxxxvi. viii, Turn our darkness into light; Give us valiancy for fear. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 164 Would that gay valiancy be with him so long as it was with Henri IV?
b. Const. of (the mind, heart, spirit, etc.).
1579Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune i. Ep. Ded. 3 Her flatteries haue ouercome that valiencie of mans minde. c1650Don Bellianis 18 Truly Prince Don Gallaneo you have plainly expressed the valiancy of your mind. 1813Coleridge Lect. Shaks. in Rem. (1836) II. 143 This happy valiancy of style is but the representative and result of all the material excellencies so expressed. 1846C. G. Prowett Prometh. Bd. 12 Or force of hands, or valiancy of heart.
c. arch. Used with possessive as an honorific.
1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiv, His blood..will flow as temperately as your valiancie's, when you stand up in your stirrups to view a field of battle.
†2. A valiant act or feat. Obs.—1
1627Lisander & Cal. viii. 138 Acting in the fury wherein hee was..such valiancies, that thereby he did lessen all those which heretofore hee had done. |