valor

Courage and boldness, as in battle; bravery.

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

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.

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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."

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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Válor, Spain
Location of Válor
Country	Spain
Province	Granada
Municipality	Válor
Area
- Total	59 km2 (22.8 sq mi)
Elevation	909 m (2,982 ft)
Population (2005)
- Total	736
- Density	12.5/km2 (32.4/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Válor is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the city has a population of 736 inhabitants.

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Coordinates: 36°36′N 3°03′W / 36.60°N 3.05°W / 36.60; -3.05

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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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