单词 | valiance |
释义 | valiancen. 1. Bravery, valour; = valiancy n. 1. Also figurative.Very common in the 16th cent.; now chiefly as a literary archaism. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > valour > [noun] earlshipOE prowessc1325 pruancec1330 valiantisec1330 wightshipc1330 valure?a1350 wightness1377 orpednessa1398 orpedshipc1400 valiantness1470 valiance1475 fierceness1490 priceheadc1540 valiancy1574 valor1586 valencea1604 valeur1646 valorousness1727 1475 Bk. Noblesse 55 For his gret trouthe, vailliaunce, and manhod..king Pirrus..offred to gyve hym the .iiijth part of his roiaume. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 49 The mekle valiaunce of schir Cipro Consul of Rome. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxxxiiiiv These folys them boste of dedys of valyaunce And worthy actis done by them in batayle. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 50 When I was yong, and valiance had, and prowess. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 44 Let vs not expect, that other come and encourage vs to be braue and resolute, but let vs begin to excite other to valiance. 2. A valiant act or deed; a feat of valour or bravery. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > valour > deed of valour > [noun] > heroic feat chivalry1297 bountyc1330 vassalagec1330 feata1400 turnc1400 pointc1440 valiance1470 valiantise1513 valiancy1627 gallantry1652 heroism1740 heroics1873 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur v. viii. 173 Grete valyaunces, prowesses, and appertyces of werre were that day shewed. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. vii. 17 By cause he had founde so many valyaunces in the romayns. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xix. 33 Places of assembly, where the company shalbe desirous to heare of old aduentures & valiaunces of noble knights in times past. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1470 |
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