valor

(văl'ər)
n.
Courage and boldness, as in battle; bravery.

[Middle English valour, from Old French, from Late Latin valor, from Latin valēre, to be strong.]

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noun

1. The quality of mind enabling one to face danger or hardship resolutely: braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, dauntlessness, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, gameness, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, mettle, nerve, pluck, pluckiness, spirit, stoutheartedness, undauntedness, valiance, valiancy, valiantness. Informal spunk, spunkiness. Slang gut (used in plural), gutsiness, moxie. See fear/courage.
2. The quality or state of being heroic: gallantry, heroism, prowess, valiance, valiancy. See fear/courage.

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

"Why have you halted?" roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge; "move forward, sir, at once."

"General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy."

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Quotes:

"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness." - Miguel De Cervantes

"There is always safety in valor." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Valor consists in the power of self recovery." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures." - Georg Hegel

"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy." - Plutarch

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A rodenticide no longer marketed because of toxicity in horses causing dehydration, abdominal pain, hindlimb weakness, inappetence, fishy smell in urine. Called also N-3-pyridyl methyl N¹-p-nitrophenyl urea.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tapperhed, mod

Nederlands (Dutch)
moed

Français (French)
n. - valeur, bravoure, courage

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tapferkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανδρεία, γενναιότητα, παλικαριά, πολεμική αρετή

Italiano (Italian)
valore, coraggio, prodezza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - valor (m), coragem (f) heróica

Русский (Russian)
отвага, мужество

Español (Spanish)
n. - valor, valentía

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tapperhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
勇气, 勇猛

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 勇氣, 勇猛

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 용기, 무용

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 勇気

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شجاعه, بساله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גבורה, אומץ, עוז-רוח‬

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