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单词 valiance
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valiancen.

/ˈvaljəns/
Forms: Middle English vailliaunce, vaylliaunce, Middle English–1500s valiaunce, valyaunce, 1500s -eaunce, 1500s–1600s, 1800s valiance.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman valiance (1304), or < Old French vaillance (Anglo-Norman vayllaunce ), < valiant , vaillant : see valiant adj.
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]
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wightshipc1330
valure?a1350
wightness1377
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fierceness1490
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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.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 387 His son exerted many acts of forward valiance.1841 W. M. Thackeray Chron. Drum i, in 2nd Funeral Napoleon & Chron. Drum 89 In spite of our valiance, The victory lay with Malbrook.1894 Academy 16 June 491/3 Equal to them in business capacity, superior in persevering energy, in valiance of heart and true courage.1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty ii. 402 They with the brave buds of March shall drink the valiance of his steepening rays.
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
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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.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. ii. 21 Our cavalier's is the poetic leg, a portent, a valiance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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