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Meanings of hardiness in English

Portuguese
ousadia
Catalan
gosadia
Spanish
osadía

The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger.

ousadia
Catalan
robustesa
Spanish
resistencia

The property of being strong and healthy in constitution.

robustesa
Russian
жизнестойкость

In humans, the ability to endure stress without deleterious effects on health.

жизнестойкость
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Usage of hardiness in English
1
Prudence is an element in courage, and courage without it is fool-hardiness.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
2
The hardiness and endurance of this breed of horses almost exceed belief.
California Sketches, New Series
3
The walnuts which were planted showed a fairly high degree of hardiness.
Growing Nuts in the North / A Personal Story of the Author's Exp...
4
Thus through his great hardiness he beat aback all the knights without.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2
5
They however show hardiness equal to any other variety grown in Pennsylvania.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...
6
Several of the mad worlds succumbed to their own fool-hardiness in navigation.
Star Maker
7
The gesture partakes of fool hardiness and we do not recommend it.
The new yorker
8
By this the natural hardiness of the people may appear, as before specified.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
9
They fought magnificently and repulsed our attacks time and again despite our hardiness.
Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
10
And, like the Cut-Leaved Birch, it is ironclad in its hardiness.
Amateur Gardencraft: A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
11
The hardiness of some of the insects deserves to be mentioned.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
12
Although botanically both are the same, yet there is a difference in hardiness.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
13
I had the fool-hardiness to wish for some real excitement this very afternoon.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
14
We ought to know more about the hardiness of these trees.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
15
Truly the Muse sometimes lends to her favourites a merciful hardiness.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
16
Cattle endure time and season, with a hardiness that no other animal possesses.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
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Translations for hardiness
Portuguese
ousadiaaudácia
Hardiness through the time
Hardiness across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common