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Vinony

hardiness

noun

  1. in humans, the ability to endure stress without deleterious effects on health
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Middle English hardynesse; equivalent to hardy + -ness.

  1. The quality of being hardy.

    “Kale is known for its winter-hardiness.”

    “[…] with usefull and generous labours preserving the bodies health, and hardinesse; to render lightsome, cleare, and not lumpish obedience to the minde,”

  2. The quality of being hardy.

    “Plentie, and Peace breeds Cowards: Hardneſſe euer / Of Hardineſſe is Mother.”

    “[…] they who were not yet grown to the hardineſs of Avowing the contempt of the King […] would ſooner have been checked, and recovered their Loyalty and Obedience.”

  3. Hardship; fatigue.

    “Yet ſure they are very valiant, and hardy, for the moſt part great Indurers of Cold, Labour, Hunger, and all Hardineſs […]”